Murder by feeding on over-hot food. Person forced to eat — Mythoi

Motif

Murder by feeding on over-hot food. Person forced to eat.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S112.5

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.) Attempted murder by live coals in garments 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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