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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis III 78
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes. (Cf. Q421.1.)

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