Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.)

Motif

Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q491.5

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
Italian NovellaRotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general DeCock Volkssage 96ff.

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 Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave Corpse of murderer mutilated. (Cf. Q211.)Punishment: throwing dead body into river

Travels with

Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.)

wander