μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • HinduPenzer I 111, Meyer Hindu Tales 226.
  • general Chauvin V 3 No. 2
  • general Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Impalement as punishment for faithlessness. Enemy chief has the faithless widow of his victim impaledBodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishmentImpaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)
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.)Flaying alive as punishmentFlogging 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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