μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Murder by suffocation.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S113.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • West Indies Flowers 575.
Within the index

Filed under Murder by strangling. See references to Q424.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Devil cuts off hand of woman and suffocates her Suffocating in bathroom Murder by luring to feast and suffocating. All holes are stopped and house set afire
Filed beside it
Murder by hanging

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “suffocation” · wander