μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 49 No. 327F*.
  • general Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 136ff.
Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Murderess forced to leap from cliff. (Cf. Q211.)Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.)Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.)
Filed beside it
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty personPunishment: hangingPunishment: burning alivePunishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.)Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.)Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.)Punishment: beheadingPunishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.)Punishment: breaking upon a wheelPunishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.)Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.)Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishmentPunishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca)Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Capital punishment – miscellaneous
Travels with
Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.)

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