Head used as ball.
Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S139.2.2.4.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 30
- Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 10
- North American Indigenous Myths of the Cherokee , Bird Myths — Myth 36 36. THE BALL GAME OF THE BIRDS AND ANIMALS
- Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 2, Chapter 9
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth *Cross.
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