μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 Fb III 776a
  • general Mannhardt Wald- und Feldkulte I 28
  • general Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162.
Within the index

Filed under Other cruel punishments.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)
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 millPunishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.)Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle wordsHeart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.)Punishment: sawing in twainPunishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.)Scalding as punishmentBaby 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.)
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Heresy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.8, Q469.7, Q559.11.)Man miraculously made to excrete his entrails for heresy. (Cf. Q225.1, Q469.7.)Murder by twisting out intestines. (Cf. K1444, Q469.7.)

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