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Motif

Nose cut off as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q451.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis IV 196.
  • general Bødker Exempler 280 No. 24
Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it
Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Nose cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Nose cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)
Filed beside it
Hands and feet cut off as punishment Threat to cut off hand or foot Strong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left foot Hands 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 punishment Tongue cut off as punishment Ears cut off as punishment Blinding as punishment Punishment: thong of leather cut from back Punishment: woman's breasts cut off Punishment: genitalia cut off Piecemeal mutilation as punishment Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Punishment: head split into many pieces
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Nose cut off for failure to pay tax. (Cf. Q451.5.)

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