Flaying alive as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Flaying alive as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q457

Filed across the traditions

Irish O'Suilleabhain 43, Beal XXI 316
Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 18.
general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 291
general DeCock Volkssage 85f.
general Fb "menneskehud" II 579

Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god Devil flays impious person. (Cf. G303, Q220.) Flaying alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Flaying alive as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.)

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

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