μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • IrishO'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • MarquesasHandy 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 hangingHanging 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 treasureHanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)
Filed beside it
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty personPunishment: 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

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