Human eyes used as fishbait

Motif

Human eyes used as fishbait.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S165.6

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

HawaiiBeckwith Myth 245.

Within the index

Filed under Mutilation: putting out eyes.

Filed beside it

Eyes of beheaded person gouged out Crane pecks out tiger's eyes Blinding by thrusting needles into eyes Eyes torn out and filled with sand Necklace made of torn out human eyes Artisan who has built palace blinded so he cannot build another like it. (Cf. S161.0.1, W181.2.)

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