Artisan who has built palace blinded so he cannot build another like it. (Cf. S161.0.1, W181.2.)

Motif

Artisan who has built palace blinded so he cannot build another like it. (Cf. S161.0.1, W181.2.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S165.7

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.

Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 489, 672.

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 Human eyes used as fishbait

Travels with

Masons who build mausoleum of princess lose their right hands so they may never again construct so fine a building. (Cf. S165.7, W181.2.)King kills architect after completion of great building, so that he may never again build one so great. (Cf. S161.0.1, W154.21.)

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