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Q559 Other miraculous punishments
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- Miraculous punishments · Q550 entry
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- Devils instead of angels visit woman who has forgotten God in her prosperity · Q559.1 entry
- Punishment: man stricken blind. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) · Q559.2 entry
- Body of murdered man cannot be moved nor can water be drawn from a well to wash it. Leads to exposure of murderer · Q559.3 entry
- Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) · Q559.4 entry
- Girl punished for jeering at saint. Is stricken dumb and distaff sticks to her hand. (Cf. Q227.) · Q559.5 entry
- Poets lose ability to compose verse as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) · Q559.6 entry
- Punishment: body will not decay after death because man broke saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) · Q559.7 entry
- Half of house in which false judgment is given slips down hill. (Cf. Q265.) · Q559.8 entry
- Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) · Q559.9 entry
- Magic boat keeps thief at sea until he promises to throw ill-gotten gains into sea. (Cf. D1654.6, Q212.) · Q559.10 entry
- Man miraculously made to excrete his entrails for heresy. (Cf. Q225.1, Q469.7.) · Q559.11 entry