μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Murder of children punished. (Cf. Q418.2, Q455.1, Q553.5.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Crimes punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q211.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish O'Suilleabhain 31, Beal XXI 310
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos. 148f.
  • Greek Grote I 160
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/15).
  • general *Types 781, 832
Within the index

Filed under Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Queen expelled for poisoning stepson Woman murders son's wives. (Cf. Q426.1.)
Filed beside it
God revenges murder after thirty years Enormity of kin murder Emperor punished for his many murders. He is carried to hell Parricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.) Matricide punished Uxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.) Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.) Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.) Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.) Fratricide punished. (Cf. Q411, Q414.0.13.) Punishment for murder of co-wife Punishment for wholesale massacre of tribe Murder of parents punished by member of family Slave killed who killed enemy at owner's order
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.)
Carried in tale types

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