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Motif

Treachery punished. (Cf. Q413.8, Q414.0.5, Q414.0.6.1, Q417.2, Q423, Q431.2, Q431.10, Q433.7, Q451.1.3, Q451.4.4, Q451.5.4, Q469.7.1, Q552.1.5, Q581.0.1.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Deceptions punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q261

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishEspinosa II Nos. 113, 119, III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 75, 80, 106, 110, 126, 138–42
  • GreekGrote I 88f., 109, 171, 203
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Mackenzie Area)Jenness 87
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 3/1122, T-G. 3/912)
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 87, 331
  • TongaGifford 101, 142
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180.
  • general (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 551f.
Within the index

Filed under Deceptions punished. (Cf. Q551.2, Q558.10.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Intended treachery punished. (Cf. Q210.1, Q552.2.3.4.)Treacherous wife punished. (Cf. K2213.)
Filed beside it
Impostor punished. (Cf. K1900, Q413.3, Q414.0.6, Q414.1.1, Q416.0.3, Q431.7, Q433.4, Q458.0.4, Q552.1.3.)Lying (perjury) punished. (Cf. Q431.17, Q451.1.7, Q451.3.2, Q451.5.3, Q451.7.1, Q488.1, Q551.6.1, Q551.8.5, Q551.9.2, Q552.1.7, Q558.2, Q558.15, Q591.)False judging punished. (Cf. Q551.8.1, Q558.16, Q559.8.)Punishment for breaking promiseHypocrisy punishedFlattery punished
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Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.)Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.)Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.)Punishment: breaking upon a wheelBanishment for assault on king's tax collectorsBanishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Elder brothers banished for treachery. (Cf. K2211, Q261.)Imprisonment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Tongue cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Nose cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Death by thunderbolt as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Loss of life as result of one's own treachery. (Cf. Q261.)
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