μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • IndonesiaSnouck-Hurgronje De Atjehers II 142.
  • general East Gothic: De la Saussaye 135
  • general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 273
  • general Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 270
  • general G. Kurth Histoire poetique des Merovingiens 420ff. Icelandic: *Boberg
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.)
Filed beside it
Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.)Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.)Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.)Punishment: dragging to death by a horsePunishment: trampling by elephants

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