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Motif

Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q416.0.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Quartering by horses as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.)
Filed beside it
Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.) Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses Punishment: dragging to death by a horse Punishment: trampling by elephants
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.) Uxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.)

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