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Motif

Punishment: burning alive.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20
  • Spanish Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 140, 161
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone II No. 2, Rotunda
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard 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 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: 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 Punishment: king hung between two fires Woman 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 person Punishment: hanging 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Miraculous burning as punishment. (Cf. Q414.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Heaven. A blissful upper world Banishment from heaven for breaking tabu Person in magic sleep surrounded by protecting hedge Residence in a tree Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence Adventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.) Angels Stubbornness

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