μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IrishO'Suilleabhain 43, Beal XXI 316
  • SwissJegerlehner 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 godDevil 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 punishmentMutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.)Punishment: snake sucks woman's breastsPunishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.)Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.)Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.)Flogging 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

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