μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Murder by sticking needle through head.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Basile 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

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