Murder with hot iron. Bored through eye or nose — Mythoi

Motif

Murder with hot iron. Bored through eye or nose.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S112.2

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 592, Boberg
India Thompson-Balys.
Africa (Fjort) Dennett 52 No. 8.
general *Krappe Balor 4ff.

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Murder by hot iron through heart Murder by driving red-hot iron spits through soles of feet and into shins

Filed beside it

City burned with all inhabitants House (hostel) burned with all inside Boiling to death. Often in pitch or oil 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Punishment: climbing red-hot rod. (Cf. S112.2.) Punishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.)

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