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Motif

Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q478.1.2

Cited in the index
  • general Heptameron No. 32.
Within the index

Filed under The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull
Filed beside it
Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.) Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.)

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