μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Throwing into pit of snakes as punishmentPrisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starvePunishment: pushing into wellPunishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit
Filed beside it
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 insideCovering with honey and exposing to fliesEmbarkation in leaky vessel as punishmentPunishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Other cruel punishments
Travels with
Escape from pit of snakes by means of rope. (Cf. Q465, R41.3.1.)

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