μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Sexual sins punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q241

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Greek Fox 197 (cf. K1563)
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 794, 1369
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 127
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 114
  • Marquesas Handy 113, 118
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 170
  • Tonga Gifford 76, 119
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 344 n. 240
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 120, 161
  • Africa (Congo) Grenfell 817.
  • general **Encyc. Rel. Ethics s. v. "adultery"
  • general *Schoepperle 446ff.
  • general *Penzer II 88 n. 1, VI 189 n. 2
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228
  • general Herbert III 134, 472, 574
  • general Boccaccio Decameron V No. 8 (*Lee 166)
  • general *Chauvin VIII 120 No. 104
  • general Alphabet Nos. 35–37
  • general Wesselski Bebel I 175 No. 18
  • general Grimm No. 4 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4
  • general Loomis White Magic 99
  • general Foulché-Delbosc and Krappe "La légende du roi Ramire" Revue Hispanique LXXVIII (1930) 489–543. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Sexual sins punished.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Desire to commit adultery punished Lover refuses to take back unfaithful paramour
Filed beside it
Incest punished. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q421.0.6, Q431.8.1, Q451.4.3, Q451.7.3, Q520.3, Q541.3, Q552.19.4.) Incontinence punished – miscellaneous. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q414.0.3.1, Q431.5.3, Q433.6, Q451.1.4.1, Q458.2.1.) Punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.7, Q421.0.3, Q431.6, Q451.6.0.1, Q467.4, Q552.1.2.) Punishment for refusal to marry after girl is pregnant. (Cf. Q263, Q451.2.1.) Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punished Punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. F302, F361, Q469.11.) Punishment for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q241, Q556.9.) Punishment for refusal to have children. (Cf. Q431.4, Q552.9, T572.) Punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q416.0.1.) Sodomy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.11, T463.) Girl punished for becoming pregnant Punishment of woman who prefers mortal lover to gods Punishment for clandestine lover of princess Refusal of conjugal relations punished
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fairy banished for adultery. (Cf. F254.5, Q241.) Punishment for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q241, Q556.9.) Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.) Murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad. (Cf. Q241.) Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.) Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Adulteress confined in a cage. (Cf. Q241.) Adulteress and paramour fettered. (Cf. Q241.) Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Tongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Speaking cat Snake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.) Magic bed Maiming by magic Magic sickness. (Cf. D1837.) Resuscitation by warming dead man Revenant as dog. (Cf. E421.3.6.) Revenant as old man Fear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bell Hero plays skittles with demons Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast Dressmaker (milliner, etc.)

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