Torture as punishment.
Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q450.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 25
- Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 23
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 10
- NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 9
- Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 19
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.
- Irish mythCross
- Jewish*Neuman.