Murder by driving nail through head

Motif

Murder by driving nail through head.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S115.2.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

West AfricaNassau Fetischism in West Africa (London, 1904) 337ff. No. 2.

Within the index

Filed under Murder by sticking needle through head.

Carried in tale types

Toad on the Head of a Corpse (Murder with a nail) · ATU 960D1 recorded variant

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