Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.)

Motif

Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q511

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.

Irish myth*Cross.
general RTP II 267, VIII 586
general FL IX 375ff. No. 3
general Zs. f. österreichische Volkskunde VII 197

Within the index

Filed under Tedious punishments.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until stone as long as murdered man is found. This is to be put on the grave Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until another can be induced to take it

Filed beside it

Unremitting torture as punishment Wandering as a punishment Wandering after death as punishment Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.)

Travels with

Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

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