Wandering after death as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Wandering after death as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q503

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Filed under Tedious punishments.

1 finer motif beneath it

Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.)

Filed beside it

Unremitting torture as punishment Wandering as a punishment Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.)Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.)