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Punishment: burning alive.

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“She took the Queen by the hand and led her to heaven, and showed her there her two eldest children, who smiled at her, and were playing with the ball of the world. When the Queen rejoiced thereat, the Virgin Mary said, " Is thy hearty not yet softened? If thou wilt own that thou openedst the, forbidden door, I will give thee back thy two little sons." But for the third time the Queen answered, " No, I did not open the forbidden door."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 3 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 15references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 20
  • SpanishKeller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 140, 161
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone II No. 2, Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 35 No. 22
  • Africa (Luba)DeClerq ZsKS IV 222.
  • general **W. Foerster Der Feuertod als Strafe in der altfr. erzählenden Dichtung (Halle, 1913)
  • general *Fb "brænde" IV 69ab, "teglovn"
  • general Dickson 74
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 232
  • general Alphabet No. 353
  • general Grimm No. 3 (Type 710). Irish myth: *Cross → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 3
  • general S. Am. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151
Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

19 finer motifs beneath 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 stakeDemons burn heretics at stake. (Cf. Q225.1.)Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.)Burning for witchcraftBurning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.)Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.)Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar)Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron housePunishment: burning and scattering ashesPunishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoesPunishment: king hung between two firesWoman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment
Filed beside it
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty personPunishment: hangingPunishment: 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
Travels with
Miraculous burning as punishment. (Cf. Q414.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Heaven. A blissful upper worldBanishment from heaven for breaking tabuPerson in magic sleep surrounded by protecting hedgeResidence in a treeMagic manifestation at execution proves innocenceAdventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.)AngelsStubbornness

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