μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Jewish*Neuman
  • TongaGifford 190.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
City burned with all inhabitantsHouse (hostel) burned with all insideBoiling to death. Often in pitch or oilMurder with hot iron. Bored through eye or noseMurder by hot lead poured into ear. (Cf. S115.1.)Attempted murder by live coals in garmentsMurder by feeding on over-hot food. Person forced to eatSon takes mother to woods and tries to burn her up while she sleeps

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