Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret — Mythoi

Motif

Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S163

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Spanish Boggs FFC XC 67 No. 510, Keller
Greek Fox 70 (Philomela), Grote I 181
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/600)
general Koryak, American Indian: *Jochelson JE VI 372.

Within the index

Filed under Mutilations.

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 off legs (feet) 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.)

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