Attempted murder by live coals in garments — Mythoi

Motif

Attempted murder by live coals in garments.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S112.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

City burned with all inhabitants House (hostel) burned with all inside 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.) 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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