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 EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 30
- Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 10
- North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Bird Myths — Myth 3636. 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
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 myth*Cross.