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Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q417

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Spanish Boggs 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 person Punishment: hanging Punishment: burning alive Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) 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.)
Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.)

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