μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • NorwegianR. Berge Eventyr II 49, 66, 71
  • RussianRalston Russian Folk Tales 146.
  • general DeCock Studien 9f.
  • general Cosquin Contes indiens 179
  • general Fb "rem" III 39a
Within the index

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

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 punishmentEars cut off as punishmentBlinding as punishmentPunishment: 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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