μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q462

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Hindu Tawney I 147, 396.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: nailing to pillar Punishment by hanging up by the feet
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 Impalement as punishment 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.)

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