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Motif

Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q463

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 8
  • Icelandic Boberg.
  • general DeCock Volkssage 87
  • general BP I 108
  • general Sébillot France I 302, II 90, 271, IV 293ff.
  • general Fb "spigertønde"
  • general Child II 343, IV 30 n. 32, V 48
  • general *Page JAFL LIX 20ff.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

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