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Filed under Humiliating punishments.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Insolvent debtor drawn through streets. (Cf. Q271.)Corpse of adulteress drawn through streets. (Cf. Q241.)Punishment: riding through street on bullPunishment: tying to horse's tailSeducer, who had disguised as woman, is led naked through streets. (Cf. Q243.2.)Importunate lover put asleep in streetPunishment: sending out of town on donkeysPunishment: princess to display self on roof
Filed beside it
Spitting in face as punishmentBranding as punishment. (Cf. H55.)"Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown inTar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.)Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends)Frightful meal as punishmentPrincess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.)Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.)Princess must sell goods on market as punishmentHusband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Noble person must live in hovelCriminal's property destroyed as punishmentAdulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.)Cutting hair as punishmentIndignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.)Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches
Travels with
Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.)

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