μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 17references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • MarquesasHandy 104
  • HawaiiBeckwith 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 potionAdulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.)Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her roomAdulteress 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 candlesPunishment: eating ashes instead of food
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.)
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