μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q411

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos. 108, 133, 141
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 556
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 120
  • Africa (Wakweli) Bender 43.
  • general F. Ström On the Sacral Origin of the Germanic Death Penalties (Stockholm, 1942)
  • general *Roberts 211
Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

17 finer motifs beneath it
Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Husband kills wife and paramour Punishment: winning as wife and then killing Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed Death of father (son, etc.) as punishment Death as punishment for treachery Hero kills mutilators of girl Death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Death as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) A man in every house in the land killed as punishment for abduction by their king Death as punishment for reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish). (Cf. Q284.) Death as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men Death as punishment for thievery Death as punishment for spying on uncanny persons Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat
Filed beside it
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.)
Fratricide punished. (Cf. Q411, Q414.0.13.) Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) Flogging to death as punishment. (Cf. Q410, S122.) Humiliating death as punishment. (Cf. Q411.) Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.) Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.)

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