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Motif

Punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Crimes punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q211.8

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Eskimo (Smith Sound) Kroeber JAFL XII 177, (Greenland): Rink 157, 222, 469, Holm 47, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 62.
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.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Wounded king exacts fine from those intending to slay him
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.) Murder of children punished. (Cf. Q418.2, Q455.1, Q553.5.) Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.) Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.) Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains 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.)
Criminal intent punished. (Cf. Q211.8, Q261.1, Q451.7.0.2.4.) Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Miraculous drowning as punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q211.8.)
Carried in tale types

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