μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • EskimoThompson Tales 4, 272 n. 2.
Within the index

Filed under Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogsPunishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.)
Filed beside it
Punishment: being eaten by demonMice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.)Punishment: man eaten by worms (snake)Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts)Punishment: being devoured by tigerBears devour the wickedWolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.)Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.)Punishment: being eaten by fish

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