μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Punishment: dragging to death by a horse.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q416.2

Scholars’ trail — 3 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.

  • Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges
  • Lithuanian Balys Index Nos. 452*f., 481*
  • India Thompson-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 horses Punishment: trampling by elephants

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