The constellation
Q552 Prodigy as punishment
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- Miraculous punishments · Q550 entry
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- Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets) · Q552.0.1 entry
- Death by thunderbolt as punishment · Q552.1 entry
- Sinking of earth as punishment · Q552.2 entry
- Failure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.) · Q552.3 entry
- Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.) · Q552.4 entry
- Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.) · Q552.5 entry
- Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.) · Q552.6 entry
- Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.) · Q552.7 entry
- Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.) · Q552.8 entry
- Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.) · Q552.9 entry
- Plague as punishment · Q552.10 entry
- Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) · Q552.11 entry
- Punishment: shipwreck · Q552.12 entry
- Fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. F797, F962.2.) · Q552.13 entry
- Storm as punishment. (Cf. D905.) · Q552.14 entry
- Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.) · Q552.15 entry
- Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.) · Q552.16 entry
- Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) · Q552.17 entry
- Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) · Q552.18 entry
- Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.) · Q552.19 entry
- Eclipse as punishment · Q552.20 entry
- Man vomits heart as punishment and lives without it till his death · Q552.21 entry
- Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice · Q552.22 entry
- Punishment: being suspended between heaven and earth · Q552.23 entry