Mutilation: cutting off fingers

Motif

Mutilation: cutting off fingers.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S161.1

Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Icelandic*Boberg
Buddhist mythMalalasekera 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

Child's finger-ends cut off to give long life

Filed beside it

Masons who build mausoleum of princess lose their right hands so they may never again construct so fine a building. (Cf. S165.7, W181.2.)

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