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Motif

Punishment: hanging.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q413

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Marquesas Handy 63.
  • general *DeCock Volkssage 74
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1438ff.
Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Threat of hanging Hanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Hanging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Hanging as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Hanging as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Hanging as punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q225.2.) Hanging as punishment for silence about hidden treasure Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)
Filed beside it
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person 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

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