μῦθοι Mythoi
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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 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 potionAdulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her roomAdulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals
Travels with
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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