μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • MarquesasHandy 78, 121.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

18 finer motifs beneath it
Hands and feet cut off as punishmentThreat to cut off hand or footStrong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left footHands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.)Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.)Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)Loss of speech as punishmentTongue cut off as punishmentNose cut off as punishmentEars cut off as punishmentBlinding as punishmentPunishment: thong of leather cut from backPunishment: woman's breasts cut offPunishment: genitalia cut offPiecemeal mutilation as punishmentLips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.)Punishment: head split into many piecesAdulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.)
Filed beside it
Torture as punishmentPunishment: snake sucks woman's breastsPunishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.)Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.)Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.)Flaying alive as punishmentFlogging as punishmentImpalement as punishmentCrucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.)Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on insideCovering with honey and exposing to fliesThrowing into a pit as punishmentEmbarkation in leaky vessel as punishmentPunishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Other cruel punishments
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