Wounding by trapping with sharp knives (glass)

Motif

Wounding by trapping with sharp knives (glass).

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Wounding or torturing. · view the constellation · filed as S181

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone II Nos. 2, 5
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 432
general *BP II 261ff.

Within the index

Filed under Wounding or torturing.

1 finer motif beneath it

Victim bound to a bladed wheel. (Cf. Q423.)

Filed beside it

Girl fastened by hair to rafter Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.)Cruelty to pregnant woman Torturing by beating Torturing by scratching Driving insane by keeping awake

Carried in tale types

The Prince as Bird · ATU 4321 recorded variant

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