Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals

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Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q478.1.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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Irish mythCross.

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

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