μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 110, 140f.
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 2
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 652
  • general BP II 121ff., *124
  • general Fb "indmure" II 24
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.)Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)
Filed beside it
Torture as punishmentMutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.)Punishment: snake sucks woman's breastsPunishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.)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
Travels with
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)Immolation
Carried in tale types

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