Covering with honey and exposing to flies — Mythoi

Motif

Covering with honey and exposing to flies.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q464

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162, Boberg
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "supplice"
Italian Novella *Rotunda
Jewish *Neuman.
general DeCock Studien 11ff.
general Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9
general *Gaster Beiträge zur vgl. Sagen- und Märchenkunde 21
general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer (1828) 701

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