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Other cruel punishments.

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

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13 finer motifs beneath 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: 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.)
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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 Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.)

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