Murder with poisoned comb

Motif

Murder with poisoned comb.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S111.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general *Type 709
general *BP I 450ff.
general *Böklen 109.

Within the index

Filed under Murder by poisoning.

Filed beside it

Murder with poisoned bread Murder with poisoned lace Murder with poisoned apple Murder with poisoned book. King wets finger to turn leaves and falls dead Murder with poisoned robe. Consumes wearer Murder with poisoned slippers Murder by feeding poisonous snake Murder by placing a poisoned fingernail on step

Carried in tale types

Snow White · ATU 70932 recorded variants

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