Torturing by beating — Mythoi

Motif

Torturing by beating.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Wounding or torturing. · view the constellation · filed as S186

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 26

Filed across the traditions

Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 587.
general Der Heiligen Leben und Leiden 100ff. (Santa Barbara)

Within the index

Filed under Wounding or torturing.

Filed beside it

Wounding by trapping with sharp knives (glass) Girl fastened by hair to rafter Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.) Cruelty to pregnant woman Torturing by scratching Driving insane by keeping awake

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