Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes

Motif

Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q421.1

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
AfricaFrobenius Atlantis III 78
Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 214 No. 73.
general *Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.
general *BP III 368, IV 113
general *B. Lewis Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance 107ff.
general Child V 482 s. v. "heads". Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Punishment: beheading.

1 finer motif beneath it

Head cut off and hung on tree outside village

Filed beside it

Beheading as punishment for debt. (Cf. Q271.)Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Beheading as punishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.)Beheading as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)Beheading as punishment for mutilation Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.)Beheading as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.)Beheading for persecution of wife. (Cf. S410.)Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.)Punishment: cutting throat

Travels with

Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes. (Cf. Q421.1.)

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