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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • GreekAeschylus Prometheus Bound 366, 1016
  • JewishNeuman
  • 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 punishmentMutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.)Punishment: snake sucks woman's breastsPunishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.)Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.)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.)Burial alive

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