μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 19 No. 180
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.)
Filed beside it
Punishment: being eaten by demonPunishment: being eaten by dogsMice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.)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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