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

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

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.

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

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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