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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IrishO'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 demonPunishment: being eaten by dogsMice 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
Filed beside it
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty personPunishment: hangingPunishment: burning alivePunishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.)Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.)Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.)Punishment: beheadingPunishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.)Punishment: breaking upon a wheelPunishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.)Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.)Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishmentPunishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca)Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Capital punishment – miscellaneous
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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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