μῦθοι Mythoi
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Other humiliating punishments.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q499

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Filed under Humiliating punishments.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Humiliating kiss as punishment Humiliating death as punishment. (Cf. Q411.) Sacrament refused as punishment for desecration of holy place. (Cf. Q222.) Satirizing as punishment for refusal to grant request. (Cf. Q287.) Debtor clerics forbidden churchly offices. (Cf. Q271.) Penance for three years and a half for eating horseflesh Humiliating marriage as punishment Humiliating penance: king to rub nose five times on red hot griddle
Filed beside it
Spitting in face as punishment Branding as punishment. (Cf. H55.) Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.) "Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown in Tar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.) Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends) Frightful meal as punishment Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.) Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.) Princess must sell goods on market as punishment Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Noble person must live in hovel Criminal's property destroyed as punishment Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) Cutting hair as punishment Indignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.)

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