μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Other indignities to corpse.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S139.2.2

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Filed under Slain person dismembered.

8 finer motifs beneath 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 Ashes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap
Filed beside it
Head of murdered man displayed before his own house

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