Mutilation by crushing. (Cf. S116.)

Motif

Mutilation by crushing. (Cf. S116.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S167

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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Mutilations.

1 finer motif beneath it

Mutilation: crushing victim's limbs

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: skin cut from back 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.)

Travels with

Murder by crushing. (Cf. S167.)

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