μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • HinduTawney I 147, 396.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: nailing to pillarPunishment by hanging up by the feet
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 punishmentImpalement as punishmentSpiked-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
Travels with
Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.)

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