House (hostel) burned with all inside

Motif

House (hostel) burned with all inside.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S112.0.2

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
MarquesasHandy 132
Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 386
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 514.

Within the index

Filed under Burning to death. (See notes to K955 and Q414.)

Filed beside it

City burned with all inhabitants Boiling to death. Often in pitch or oil Murder with hot iron. Bored through eye or nose Murder by hot lead poured into ear. (Cf. S115.1.)Attempted murder by live coals in garments Murder by feeding on over-hot food. Person forced to eat Murder by roasting alive in oven furnace)Son takes mother to woods and tries to burn her up while she sleeps

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