Man in moon as punishment for disdainful sacrifice (Cain)

Motif

Man in moon as punishment for disdainful sacrifice (Cain).

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.1.3

Cited in the index

general Emerson "Medieval Legends of Cain" PMLA XXI 840ff.

Within the index

Filed under Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishment.

Filed beside it

Man in moon has punishment for burning brush on Sunday Man in moon is put there as punishment for cursing God Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns

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