Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q412

Cited in the index

general *Type 720
general BP I 412ff., *423
general Liebrecht 296
general *Fb "möllesten" II 650
general Herrmann Saxo II 568 n. 2, Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 277. Jewish: Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

The Juniper Tree (previously My Mother Slew Me; My Father Ate Me) · ATU 720 3 recorded variants

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