Disease as punishment

Motif

Disease as punishment.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1337.0.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XIV
Depth Commentary Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics , Chapter II
Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter XVI
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVII

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of disease.

Filed beside it

Disease caused by the gods Disease caused by ghosts Disease caused by witchcraft Disease caused by menstrual blood. (Cf. D1003.) Disease to prevent man enjoying himself too much Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union Origin of ulcers Origin of cholera Origin of epilepsy Origin of fever Origin of itch Origin of leprosy Origin of smallpox Origin of illness from fire and cold

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