Punishment: burial alive up to the breast (neck)

Motif

Punishment: burial alive up to the breast (neck).

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q456.1

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 597.
general BP I 432
general Köhler-Bolte I 571
general Cowell Jātaka I 130

Within the index

Filed under Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Cast-forth wife buried up to the waist for seven years and despitefully used

Filed beside it

Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Burial alive as punishment for swindling. (Cf. Q274.)Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.)Burial alive for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.2.)

Travels with

Enemies buried alive up to their necks and exposed to jackals. (Cf. Q456.1.)

wander