Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) — Mythoi

Motif

Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q415.7

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet

Filed beside it

Punishment: being eaten by demon Punishment: being eaten by dogs Mice 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 tiger Bears devour the wicked Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Punishment: being eaten by fish

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.) (Cf. Q411.11, Q415.7, Q431.13, Q491.1.2, Q499.3, Q551.6.5, Q551.8.2, Q552.17, Q556.6, Q557.7, Q558.5, Q558.14, Q558.17, Q558.18, Q559.9.)

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