μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.)

7 finer motifs beneath it
Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishmentBoring hole through heel as punishmentHamstringing as punishmentYouth 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.)
Filed beside it
Hands and feet cut off as punishmentThreat to cut off hand or footStrong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left footHands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.)Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.)Loss of speech as punishmentTongue cut off as punishmentNose cut off as punishmentEars cut off as punishmentBlinding as punishmentPunishment: thong of leather cut from backPunishment: woman's breasts cut offPunishment: genitalia cut offPiecemeal mutilation as punishmentLips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.)Punishment: head split into many pieces
Travels with
Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet)
Carried in tale types

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