Hamstringing as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Hamstringing as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q451.2.0.3

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 244.

Within the index

Filed under Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)

Filed beside it

Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment Boring hole through heel as punishment Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Foot cut off as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)

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