Head shaved as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Head shaved as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q488.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CCLXVII
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LXVII LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Cutting hair as punishment.

Filed beside it

Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.)

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