Punishment: twisting entrails from body — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: twisting entrails from body.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q469.7

Cited in the index

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 mill Punishment: 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 words Heart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.) 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.)

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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