μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
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Filed under Punishments in hell. (Cf. Q174.)

3 finer motifs beneath it
Girdles of sinners in hell alternately scorch with heat and coldSouls in hell alternately drowned and burnedSouls tormented in hell alternately borne up to firmament and cast down to depths
Filed beside it
Punishments in land of dead (detailed)Respite from hellSinners endure hell tortures for one yearPunishments being prepared in hellPunishments in hell fitted to crimes. (Cf. Q580.)Letter sent to the relatives from man punished in hellMan admitted to neither heaven nor hell. He has tricked the devilPunishments by heat in hell. (Cf. A671.2.4.)Punishments by cold in hellOther punishments in hell

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