Mutilations — Mythoi

Motif

Mutilations.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S160

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK I, ch. I
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 1
Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter LXIV (2)
Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , Second Part, Act 3
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXXIV XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
India Thompson-Balys.
general Nouvelles de Sens No. 24

Within the index

17 finer motifs beneath it

Self-mutilation. (Cf. T327.1, T327.2, T333.) Jealous women mutilate her who is most attractive to men Fairies mutilate mortals. (Cf. F362.) Mutilation of envoys. (Cf. R51.3.) Moon mutilates his earth mistress Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms) Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet) Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret Mutilation: knocking out teeth Mutilation: putting out eyes Mutilation: skin cut from back Mutilation by crushing. (Cf. S116.) Mutilation: tearing off ears Mutilation: nose cut off or crushed Mutilation: breaking (two, three) ribs Horses mutilated: tails cut off and manes torn off with the skin in order to humiliate their owner. (Cf. J1169.5.) Mutilation: sex organs cut off. (Cf. Q241, Q451.10.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) Father mutilates children. (Cf. S160.) Mutilation to repel lover. (Cf. S160, T333.)

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