μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Wounding or torturing. · view the constellation · filed as S183

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Wounding or torturing.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Person forced to eat red-hot meal Person forced to eat hearts (flesh) of relatives (draw blood) Person forced to eat loathsome animal
Filed beside it
Wounding by trapping with sharp knives (glass) Girl fastened by hair to rafter Cruelty to pregnant woman Torturing by beating Torturing by scratching Driving insane by keeping awake
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Frightful meal as punishment

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