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Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q428

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Capital punishment.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.)
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: 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) Capital punishment – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.)

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