Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room — Mythoi

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Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q478.1.3

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.)

Filed beside it

Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.) Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals

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