Shirt of Flame

The phrase Shirt of Flame may refer to:

  • a tunica molesta, a shirt or tunic impregnated with flammable material used for torture or execution in Ancient Rome.[1]
  • Ateşten Gömlek, known in English as The Shirt of Flame, a Turkish film of a book of the same name by Halide Edib Adıvar.
  • a specific form of the poison dress trope in folklore that burned the victim.
    • Glauce was given a cursed robe by Medea that "consumed [her] with fierce fire along with her father".[2]
    • King Arthur was given a cursed mantle by Morgan Le Fey in "Chapter XVI" . Le Morte d'Arthur – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ^ Mayor, Adrienne. 1997. "Firey Finery". Archaeology. Volume 50, (2), March/April 1997.
  2. ^ Apollodorus (1921). The Library Book 1.9.28. Translated by James George Frazer.
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