μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mutilation: beard torn off with the skin (and cheeks). (Cf. S187.1.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S166.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Mutilation: skin cut from back.

Filed beside it
Mutilation: cheek and chin cut off, but held together by biting the beard Mutilation: shoulder-skin torn off in wrestling Mutilation: cheeks cut off. (Cf. S166.2.) Mutilation: chin and lips cut off Blood-eagle cut on man's back by flaying and salting
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Torture by tearing out the sides (of a person). (Cf. S166.1.)

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