Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment

Motif

Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment.

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

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.

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

Prison filled with snakes. (Cf. Q465.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Black and the White Bride · ATU 4034 recorded variants

wander