μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • AfricaFrobenius 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 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 punishmentTongue 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
Nose cut off for failure to pay tax. (Cf. Q451.5.)

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