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Motif

Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q424

Filed across the traditions
  • Marquesas Handy 113, 129.
  • general *DeCock Volkssage 77
Within the index

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.)
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: beheading Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Punishment: breaking upon a wheel 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.)
Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle words Murder by strangling. See references to Q424

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