μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 108, 133, 141
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera 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 paramourPunishment: winning as wife and then killingUndesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killedDeath of father (son, etc.) as punishmentDeath as punishment for treacheryHero kills mutilators of girlDeath 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 kingDeath 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 menDeath as punishment for thieveryDeath as punishment for spying on uncanny personsDeath as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat
Filed beside it
Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty personPunishment: hangingPunishment: burning alivePunishment: 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: beheadingPunishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.)Punishment: breaking upon a wheelPunishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.)Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.)Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishmentPunishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca)Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Capital punishment – miscellaneous
Travels with
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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