μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q465.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 403
  • general BP I 99ff.
  • general Krappe "The Snake Tower" Scandinavian Studies XVI (1940) 22–33. – Icelandic: *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Throwing into a pit as punishment.

Filed beside it
Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve Punishment: pushing into well Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Prison filled with snakes. (Cf. Q465.1.)
Carried in tale types

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