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Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q467

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham.
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Filed under Cruel punishments.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Casting into water in sack (barrel) as punishment. (Cf. Q474, S142.) Thief cast into water in a sack containing a cock, a snake, and a monkey. He had stolen a sacred statue of gold. (Cf. Q212, Q220.) Punishment: drowning in swamp. (Cf. Q474.) Man thrown into waterfall as punishment for alleged violating of princess. (Cf. Q244.) Marooning as punishment
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 Throwing into a pit as punishment Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment Other cruel punishments
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Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.)

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