μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • MarquesasHandy 113, 129.
  • general *DeCock Volkssage 77
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Filed under Capital punishment.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Strangling as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)King strangles falcon when it kills eagle. (Cf. Q211.6.)Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Man strangles friar for attempting to seduce his wife. (Cf. Q243.2.1.)
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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: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.)Punishment: breaking upon a wheelPunishment: 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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Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle wordsMurder by strangling. See references to Q424

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