μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 710, 885
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 242.
  • general *Type 519
  • general *Krappe Archiv f. d. Studium d. neueren Sprachen CLX 161ff.
Within the index

Filed under Mutilations.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Fighting on stumps of legs after they have been cut off at kneeHamstringingMutilation: cutting off toesMutilation: cutting off heelboneMutilation: crushing feet and turning them backward
Filed beside it
Self-mutilation. (Cf. T327.1, T327.2, T333.)Jealous women mutilate her who is most attractive to menFairies mutilate mortals. (Cf. F362.)Mutilation of envoys. (Cf. R51.3.)Moon mutilates his earth mistressMutilation: cutting off hands (arms)Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secretMutilation: knocking out teethMutilation: putting out eyesMutilation: skin cut from backMutilation by crushing. (Cf. S116.)Mutilation: tearing off earsMutilation: nose cut off or crushedMutilation: breaking (two, three) ribsHorses 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
Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)
Carried in tale types

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