Parts of corpses used in sport — Mythoi

Motif

Parts of corpses used in sport.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S139.2.2.4

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Other indignities to corpse.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Head used as ball Brains of enemies fashioned into balls (as trophies for play) Chess board and men made from bones of slain enemies

Filed beside it

Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes. (Cf. Q421.1.) Dead man gutted and filled with stones Dead dog buried with enemy 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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