μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Head used as ballBrains 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 stonesDead dog buried with enemyCorpses burned as fuel for cookingCorpse drawn asunderAsh (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriorsAshes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap

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