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Motif

Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q414.0.12

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Africa (Bankon) Ittman 100.
Within the index

Filed under Punishment: burning alive.

1 finer motif beneath it
Woman saved from being burned as punishment for killing impudent suitor
Filed beside it
Burning as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.) Burning as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Burning as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Innocent queen burned at stake Demons burn heretics at stake. (Cf. Q225.1.) Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.) Burning for witchcraft Burning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.) Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar) Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house Punishment: burning and scattering ashes Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

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