Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave

Motif

Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q491.4

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IrishBeal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74.
general Scala Celi 74b No. 426
general Herbert III 99 No. 65, 666 No. 261

Within the index

Filed under Indignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.)

Filed beside it

Disgraceful burial as punishment Debtor's corpse flogged. (Cf. Q271.)Devil beats wicked man's corpse Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.)Corpse of murderer mutilated. (Cf. Q211.)Punishment: throwing dead body into river

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