μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.)

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

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Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Marquesas Handy 78, 121.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

18 finer motifs beneath 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 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 Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.)
Filed beside it
Torture as punishment Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) Flaying alive as punishment Flogging as punishment Impalement as punishment Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.) Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside Covering with honey and exposing to flies Throwing into a pit as punishment Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Other cruel punishments
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Mutilations
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