Ashes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap — Mythoi

Motif

Ashes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S139.2.2.8

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Other indignities to corpse.

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 Parts of corpses used in sport Corpses burned as fuel for cooking Corpse drawn asunder Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors

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