Impalement as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Impalement as punishment.

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

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Hindu Penzer 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 impaled Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment Impaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)

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.) Flaying alive as punishment Flogging 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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