Red as symbolic of martyrdom

Motif

Red as symbolic of martyrdom.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Symbolism. · Color symbolism. · view the constellation · filed as Z141.2

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 myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Symbolic color: red.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Martyrs called "red wheat"; saints, "Dei triticum" (God's wheat)Mill in which two men are slain said to grind "red wheat"

Filed beside it

Red garment to show anger of king Red as symbol of falsity

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