μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1, Q421.2, Q428.3, Q451.3.3, Q451.7.0.2.1, Q457.4, Q494.1, Q551.2.1, Q551.6.2, Q551.7.1, Q551.8.4, Q551.9.1, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q552.1.4, Q552.2.0.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.3, Q552.2.3.2.1, Q552.2.3.2.3, Q552.13.1.1, Q552.13.2.1, Q552.13.2.2, Q552.13.3, Q552.15, Q552.16, Q552.18.1, Q552.18.2, Q552.19.1, Q556.4, Q556.5, Q557.6, Q558.13, Q559.5, Q559.7, Q571.1, Q572.3, Q575, Q576.1, Q582.7, Q591, Q595.1.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Impiety punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q227

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Irish*Cross, O'Suilleabhain 82f., Beal XXI 328
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 59, 1249.
  • general *Loomis White Magic 98, 101f.
Within the index

Filed under Impiety punished. (Cf. Q457.2, Q458.0.5, Q467.2, Q552.2.3.1.2, Q552.2.3.2.2, Q558.11, Q558.12, Q558.17, Q559.4, Q559.5.)

3 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment for slaying king under holy protectionPunishment for looking at saint's corpseSaint (hero) drives chariot over person who displeases him
Filed beside it
Devil plagues impious peoplePersonal offences against gods punished. (Cf. Q551.3.4.2, Q552.14.0.1.)Punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.) (Cf. Q411.11, Q415.7, Q431.13, Q491.1.2, Q499.3, Q551.6.5, Q551.8.2, Q552.17, Q556.6, Q557.7, Q558.5, Q558.14, Q558.17, Q558.18, Q559.9.)Punishment for neglect of services to gods (God). (Cf. Q523.7, Q554.2, Q557.7, Q559.4.)Punishment for betraying confessional. (Cf. Q414.0.9.)Punishment for scoffing at religious teachings. (Cf. Q415.8, Q458.0.5, Q551.10.1, Q552.7, Q552.8, Q552.13.1.2, Q553.1, Q554.3, Q554.4, Q555.1, Q558.1.)Punishment for leaving holy orders. (Cf. Q520.5, Q551.3.4.3.)Punishment for trying to harm sacred animal. Glutton tries to kill a pig dedicated to St. Anthony. The pig turns upon him and tramples him severelyBrahmin punished for killing animalPunishment for change of religious faithPunishment for yielding to temptation by the devil. (Cf. Q582.2.)Cursing punishedPunishment for deceiving (divine) emperorIdolatry punished
Travels with
Uncharitableness to holy person punished. (Cf. Q1.1, Q553.3.5, Q556.11, Q589.1.)Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.)Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.)Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.)Miraculous blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q571.1.)Flaying alive as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.)Line of kingship taken from king who defies saint. (Cf. Q227.)Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.)Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q572.3.)Magic paralysis as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q573.1, Q583.3.)Man's eye bursts forth when he urges saint to marry. (Cf. Q227, Q451.7.0.2.)Miraculous burning as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.)Thunderbolt demolishes fortress as punishment for disobedience (to saint). (Cf. Q227, Q325.)Death by thunderbolt as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.)Death by fire from heaven as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.)City of king who opposed saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.)Church which refused to bury saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.)Fire from heaven consumes adulterous wife who has slandered an abbot. (Cf. Q227, Q414.0.3.)Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.)Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.)Gold and silver demanded of saint disappear. (Cf. Q227.)Drink refused saint disappears. (Cf. Q227.)Miraculous drowning as punishment for opposition to saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.)Earth quakes when saint is opposed. (Cf. Q227.)

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