μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 myth*Cross
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham.
Within the index

Filed under Sexual sins punished.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment by extinction of royal line for sexual incontinenceSuspected incontinence unjustly punishedProstitution punishedSeduction punished. (Cf. K1360, Q421.0.7, Q431.5, Q458.2.3, Q531.5.)Punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q499.2.2.)Punishment for taking heathen wivesPunishment for consorting with one of lower classTiger instead of girl in box tears lecherous teacher to pieces
Filed beside it
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.)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.)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
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Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.)Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinencePrinces banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.)Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.)Priest imprisoned for incontinence. (Cf. Q243.)Hand cut off as punishment for fornication. (Cf. Q243.)Brother flogs unchaste sister to death. (Cf. Q243.)

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