Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet) — Mythoi

Motif

Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet).

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 710, 885
Hawaii Beckwith 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 knee Hamstringing Mutilation: cutting off toes Mutilation: cutting off heelbone Mutilation: 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 men Fairies mutilate mortals. (Cf. F362.) Mutilation of envoys. (Cf. R51.3.) Moon mutilates his earth mistress Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms) 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.)

Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)

Carried in tale types

The Strong Woman as Bride (Brunhilde) · ATU 519 2 recorded variants

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