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.

  • general *Type 612
  • general BP I 126, *127.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel punishments.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Embarkation in rudderless boat as punishmentPunishment: setting adrift in boatHusband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.)Punishment: abandonment on cliff that is submerged at high tide
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 fliesThrowing into a pit as punishmentPunishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)Other cruel punishments

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