Throwing into a pit as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Throwing into a pit as punishment.

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

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve Punishment: pushing into well Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit

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 Covering with honey and exposing to flies Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Other cruel punishments

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Escape from pit of snakes by means of rope. (Cf. Q465, R41.3.1.)

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