Seaman who defies God shipwrecked

Motif

Seaman who defies God shipwrecked.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Impiety punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q221.4

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

EnglandBaughman
Finnish-SwedishWessman 18 No. 174.

Within the index

Filed under Personal offences against gods punished. (Cf. Q551.3.4.2, Q552.14.0.1.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Dam builder remarks that God Almighty could not sweep completed dam away. The whole structure gives away, disappears Man vows to recover loose boat or go to hell trying. He goes to hell Party of horsemen detained by bad weather vow to reach town whether God will or no. The earth swallows them up. (Cf. Q552.2.3.)

Filed beside it

Discourtesy to god punished. (Cf. Q327.)Punishment for opposition to Christ at crucifixion. (Cf. Q556.1.)Blasphemy punished. (Cf. Q551.1.8, Q558.4.)Disobedience to God punished Lack of trust in God punished Doubt of veracity of goddess' statement punished Theft from water-deity punished

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