Slain person dismembered — Mythoi

Motif

Slain person dismembered.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S139.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XL XL. The Nature of Osiris

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Spanish Exempla Keller
Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 72 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous cruel murders.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Head of murdered man displayed before his own house Other indignities to corpse

Filed beside it

Murder by twisting out intestines. (Cf. K1444, Q469.7.) Captured women hanged and crucified Murder by mangling with axe Murder by cutting off uvula Murder by tearing out heart Murder by slicing person into small pieces Murder by biting the throat

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Magic meat Magic sword Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) Immortality by burning Protean transformation of water-spirit Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms

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