Mutilation: skin cut from back

Motif

Mutilation: skin cut from back.

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

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 447, Boberg
Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 163–7
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens II 102a n. 140

Within the index

Filed under Mutilations.

6 finer motifs beneath it

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

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: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret Mutilation: knocking out teeth Mutilation: putting out eyes 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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