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

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“Next morning the King came and said, "Now thou mast have learnt what shuddering is ? " " No," he answered ; " what can it be ? My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder." " I'hen," said the King, " thou hast delivered the castle, and shalt marry my daughter." " That is all very well," said he, " but still I do not know what it is to shudder !”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 27references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • GreekFox 197 (cf. K1563)
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 794, 1369
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 127
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 114
  • MarquesasHandy 113, 118
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 170
  • TongaGifford 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 punishedLover 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 punishedPunishment 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 pregnantPunishment of woman who prefers mortal lover to godsPunishment for clandestine lover of princessRefusal of conjugal relations punished
Travels with
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 catSnake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.)Magic bedMaiming by magicMagic sickness. (Cf. D1837.)Resuscitation by warming dead manRevenant as dog. (Cf. E421.3.6.)Revenant as old manFear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bellHero plays skittles with demonsOgre's (dwarf's) beard caught fastDressmaker (milliner, etc.)

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