μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • IcelandicHeinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162, Boberg
  • BretonSébillot 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.

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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 punishmentCrucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.)Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on insideThrowing into a pit as punishmentEmbarkation in leaky vessel as punishmentPunishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Other cruel punishments

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