Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar) — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar).

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q414.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic FSS 243
India *Thompson-Balys.
general DeCock Volkssage 80
general Child II 312 n. 327, IV 480a, V 53, 56, 230

Within the index

Filed under Punishment: burning alive.

1 finer motif beneath it

Boiling in tar as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.)

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 murder. (Cf. Q211.) Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house Punishment: burning and scattering ashes Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes

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