μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • Jewish*Neuman.
  • general *Type 710
  • general *BP I 13ff.
Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it
Dumbness as punishment for hiding childrenDumbness as punishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.)Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.)Dumbness as punishment for blasphemy
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.)Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)Tongue 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
Man stricken dumb for surly speech. (Cf. Q327, Q451.3.)
Carried in tale types

wander