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Motif

Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q416.1

Scholars’ trail — 5 references (open)

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.

  • Indonesia Snouck-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 horse Punishment: trampling by elephants

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