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 mythCross
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • AfricaFrobenius Atlantis IV 196.
Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it
Girl (fairy) bites off ear of ravisher. (Cf. F304.4.1, Q244.)Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)
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 punishmentNose 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

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