The constellation
Q416 Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.)
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Capital punishment · Q410 entry
beneath it
- Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.) · Q416.0.1 entry
- Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.) · Q416.0.2 entry
- Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) · Q416.0.3 entry
- Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses · Q416.1 entry
- Punishment: dragging to death by a horse · Q416.2 entry
- Punishment: trampling by elephants · Q416.3 entry
keeps company
- Cowherd rescues abandoned child · R131.3.3 entry
- Child's ankles pierced before exposing him · S333 entry
- Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird · B51 entry
- Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.) · C92.2 entry
- Transformation to animal for breaking tabu · C962 entry
- Transformation: man to dolphin · D127.5 entry
- Transformation: oars and masts to serpents · D444.11 entry
- Transformation as punishment · D661 entry
- Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif · F10 entry
- Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch · N325.1 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. V