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Punishment for broken oaths.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M101

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish *Neuman.
  • general Kristensen Danske Sagn VI (1) (1900) 33ff., (1936) 18ff.
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Filed under Vows and oaths.

5 finer motifs beneath it
False swearer not allowed to approach altar Broken oaths cause of maimed people Death as punishment for broken oath Broken oath causes girl's hand to wither. (Cf. D2062.) Punishment for broken oath: loss of the inheritance of earth or heaven
Filed beside it
Equivocal oaths Escape from vengeance caused by broken oaths Vow fulfilled in next existence Violators of oaths

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