Mutilation: cutting off fingers.
Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S161.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic *Boberg
- Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 22
- Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 17, Rasmussen III 58, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 168, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 262, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 584, 586, 637.
- general *Fb "guld ring" I 514a
- general *Dickson 41 n. 41
Within the index
Filed under Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms).
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
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