Mutilation: cheek and chin cut off, but held together by biting the beard

Motif

Mutilation: cheek and chin cut off, but held together by biting the beard.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S166.2

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.

Icelandic*Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Mutilation: skin cut from back.

Filed beside it

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

Mutilation: cheeks cut off. (Cf. S166.2.)

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