Murder by sticking needle through head

Motif

Murder by sticking needle through head.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S115.2

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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 9
Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 52, Rasmussen III 65, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 185.

Within the index

Filed under Murder by stabbing.

1 finer motif beneath it

Murder by driving nail through head

Filed beside it

Murder by stabbing in ear. (Cf. S112.3.)Murder by piercing with pins and needles

Carried in tale types

The Predestined Wife [T22 · ATU 930A4 recorded variants

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