μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • CheremisSebeok-Nyerges
  • LithuanianBalys Index Nos. 452*f., 481*
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: drawing at the tails of horses. (Cf. S117.)Punishment: dragging to death tied to horns of a bull
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: trampling (kicking) to death by horsesPunishment: trampling by elephants

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