μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 155ff.
  • general R. Hirzel Abh. sächs. Ges. der Wiss. Phil.-Hist. Klasse XXVII No. 7. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 344, *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Capital punishment.

1 finer motif beneath it
Punishment: beating to death
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: beheadingPunishment: 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
Travels with
Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death

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