Punishment: beheading — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: beheading.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
French Canadian Sister Marie Ursule
Jewish *Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys.
general DeCock Volkssage 75
general *Roberts 211

Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

11 finer motifs beneath 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.) Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.) Punishment: cutting throat

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: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) 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.)

Murder by beheading. (Cf. Q421.)

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