μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q478.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Marquesas Handy 104
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 136
  • Eskimo (Cumberland Sound) Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 241
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 344 n. 241
  • Cape Verde Islands *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 140 n. 1.
  • general **Matzke MLN XXVI 1
  • general **K. Nyrop Sangerens Hjærte (København, 1908)
  • general *Child V 482 s. v. "heart"
  • general Clouston Tales II 187ff.
  • general *v. d. Hagen I cxvi
  • general DeCock Volkssage 94ff.
  • general *Hibbard 253ff.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron IV Nos. 1, 9 (Lee 116, 143)
  • general Schofield PMLA XV 123
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 413, 430
  • general Numes "A lenda de coraçao comido" Revista Lusitana XXVIII 5–15. – Italian Novella: *Rotunda
Within the index

Filed under Frightful meal as punishment.

4 finer motifs beneath 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 Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals
Filed beside it
Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.) Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles Punishment: eating ashes instead of food
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.)
Carried in tale types

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