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Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle words.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q469.5

Cited in the index
  • general BP III 495 n.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 786
  • general Scala Celi 7b No. 48.
Within the index

Filed under Other cruel punishments.

Filed beside it
Adulteress caused to fall down stairs from which steps have been removed. (Cf. Q241.) Punishment: climbing red-hot rod. (Cf. S112.2.) Punishment: grinding up in a mill Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Heart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.) Punishment: twisting entrails from body Punishment: sawing in twain Punishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.) Scalding as punishment Baby son hurled into battle as punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. Q247, Q411.3.) Murderer torn limb from limb. (Cf. Q211, Q416.) Hands in cleft log as punishment. (Cf. K1111, Q435.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.)

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