μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 98 No. 836G*, Espinosa II No. 94
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 145 No. 64.
  • general DeCock Volkssage 93
Within the index

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

10 finer motifs beneath it
Tongue cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Tongue cut out as punishment for gossip. (Cf. Q314.)Tongue cut off as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.)Tongue cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Tongue cut out as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)Tongue cut out as punishment for fault-finding (satire). (Cf. Q312.)Man pulls out his own tongue in remorseTongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Hanging by tongue as punishmentPunishment: stretching tongue to enormous length
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.)Loss of speech 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
Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.)

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