μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Hamstringing.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S162.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
  • general E. H. Meyer Germanen 161f.
  • general *P. Maurus Wielandsage in der Literatur (Müncher Beiträge zur rom. und eng. Philologie XXV [1902])
Within the index

Filed under Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet).

Filed beside it
Fighting on stumps of legs after they have been cut off at knee Mutilation: cutting off toes Mutilation: cutting off heelbone Mutilation: crushing feet and turning them backward

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