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Motif

Blinding as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q451.7

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

7 finer motifs beneath it
Loss of one eye as punishment Miraculous blindness as punishment. (Cf. Q559.2.) Blinding as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Blinding as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Blinding as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Blinding as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Wicked son blinded
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 Nose cut off as punishment Ears cut off 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.)
Son blinds father. (Cf. Q451.7, S165.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Transformation: man to woman Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment: banishment (exile)

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