Capital punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Capital punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q410

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 5
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 6
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 16: An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King (Eirenaeus Philalethes)
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CCCLXV
Japanese / Shinto Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan , Book 23

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

17 finer motifs beneath it

Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person Punishment: hanging Punishment: burning alive Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) Punishment: beheading Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Punishment: breaking upon a wheel Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Capital punishment – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Flogging to death as punishment. (Cf. Q410, S122.)

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