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Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317.
  • general *DeCock Volkssage 88
Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

10 finer motifs beneath 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 Wolves 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
Filed beside it
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person Punishment: hanging Punishment: burning alive 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.)
Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.)

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