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Motifs
- Beheading for breaking tabu. C929.3
- St. Cecilia withstands three blows of beheading sword and lives three days after. D1840.1.3
- Task: beheading witch, and bringing head to king. H1191.1
- Beheading bargain. Giant allows hero to cut off his head; he will cut off hero's later. M221
- Punishment: beheading. Q421
- Beheading as punishment for debt. (Cf. Q271.) Q421.0.1
- Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q421.0.2
- Beheading as punishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Q421.0.3
- Beheading as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q421.0.4
- Beheading as punishment for mutilation. Q421.0.5
- Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Q421.0.6
- Beheading as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Q421.0.7
- Beheading for persecution of wife. (Cf. S410.) Q421.0.8
- Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes. Q421.1
- Rescue from prison by beheading giant keeper. R211.8
- Murder by beheading. (Cf. Q421.) S133