Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) — Mythoi

Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic FSS 42, Boberg
Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos. 126, 143
Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 331 n. I (Lycurgus) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. V
India Thompson-Balys.
general Child V 157
general BP I 306
general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 272
general DeCock Volkssage 91. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

6 finer motifs beneath 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: dragging to death by a horse Punishment: trampling by elephants

Filed beside it

Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person Punishment: hanging Punishment: burning alive Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) Punishment: beheading Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Punishment: breaking upon a wheel Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Capital punishment – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Murderer torn limb from limb. (Cf. Q211, Q416.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.) Transformation to animal for breaking tabu Transformation: man to dolphin Transformation: oars and masts to serpents Transformation as punishment Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch Women, driven mad, devour their infants' flesh Mother kills son thinking him a wild beast Cowherd rescues abandoned child Child's ankles pierced before exposing him

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