Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q461.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Impalement as punishment.

Filed beside it

Impalement as punishment for faithlessness. Enemy chief has the faithless widow of his victim impaled Impaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)

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