Murder by driving nail through head.
Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S115.2.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- West Africa Nassau 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 960D 1 recorded variant
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