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Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.)

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Greek Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 366, 1016
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Müllenhoff Deutsche Alterthumskunde (ed. Roediger, Berlin, 1920) IV 244ff.
  • general **Feilberg "Levende Begravet" (Årbog for dansk Kulturhistorie [1892] pp. 1–60)
  • general DeCock Volkssage 83. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

5 finer motifs beneath 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.) Punishment: burial alive up to the breast (neck) Burial alive for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.2.)
Filed beside it
Torture as punishment Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) Flaying alive as punishment Flogging as punishment Impalement as punishment Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.) Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside Covering with honey and exposing to flies Throwing into a pit as punishment Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Other cruel punishments
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) Burial alive

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