Dead dog buried with enemy

Motif

Dead dog buried with enemy.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S139.2.2.3

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Other indignities to corpse.

1 finer motif beneath it

Corpse buried face down as indignity

Filed beside it

Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes. (Cf. Q421.1.)Dead man gutted and filled with stones Parts of corpses used in sport Corpses burned as fuel for cooking Corpse drawn asunder Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors Ashes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap

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