Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles — Mythoi

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Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q478.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Frightful meal as punishment.

Filed beside it

The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.) Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Punishment: eating ashes instead of food

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