μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • French CanadianSister 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 mutilationBeheading 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 stakesMan 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 personPunishment: hangingPunishment: burning alivePunishment: 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 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
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Murder by beheading. (Cf. Q421.)

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