With all the controversy coming out of Mel Gibson's new movie, I began to wonder about a story I have encountered wherein Pontius Pilate gets what he so richly deserves. I first read it in a book of Swiss folk tales, when I was a child. Pilate comes to a sorry end. They bury him, but the earth rejects him. They toss him in the Tiber, but he poisons the water. Finally they dump him on top of a Swiss Alp, where he can play nasty tricks on the locals, like making it rain on weddings. The alp is called Mount Pilatus, of course.
A Cornish Mystery play has Pilate executed by Tiberius Ceasar. His body is rejected by earth and water, and then taken off by devils to hell.
I know it's a myth. The Romans cremated their dead. But I'd like to know more about it's origins. Does anyone else know any versions of this story.