μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Theft punished. (Cf. Q221.8, Q413.1, Q428.2, Q431.15, Q451.0.4, Q451.1.1, Q451.2.2, Q451.4.1, Q451.5.2, Q451.6.2, Q451.7.0.2.2, Q458.0.3, Q458.2.2, Q467.2, Q469.10.2, Q520.2, Q551.2.3.ff., Q551.6.4, Q551.7.2, Q552.4, Q552.6, Q552.19.3, Q554.1, Q558.6, Q559.10, Q597.3.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Crimes punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q212

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 96 No. 1, Keller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 378
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 122
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 195
  • Africa (Cameroon)Mansfield 225, (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. KS IV 222, (Ekoi): Talbot 233
  • West IndiesFlowers 567.
  • general *Bloomfield Am. Journ. Philology XLIV 227, *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n., VI 19
  • general *Loomis White Magic 98. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 1
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Filed under Crimes punished.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Theft from dwarf (witch) revengedGrave-robbing punishedPunishment of theft: origin of sweatingStolen animal's meat impossible to cook
Filed beside it
Criminal intent punished. (Cf. Q211.8, Q261.1, Q451.7.0.2.4.)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.)Abduction punished. (Cf. Q411.8, Q595.2, R10.)Cannibalism punishedTreason punished
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Theft from water-deity punishedHanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.)Banishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.)Hands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.)Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Tongue cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Nose cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Miraculous blindness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Flogging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Flogging to death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Thief cast into water in a sack containing a cock, a snake, and a monkey. He had stolen a sacred statue of gold. (Cf. Q212, Q220.)Scalding as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Robber does penance. (Cf. Q212.)Thief rendered unable to remove burden of stolen goods from his back. (Cf. Q212.)Magic sickness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212, Q557.4, Q572.1.)Magic paralysis as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Miraculous drowning as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.)Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.)Punishment: devil carries off thief. (Cf. Q212.)Madness as punishment for thieves. (Cf. Q212.)

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