Punishment for breaking bird's nest

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Punishment for breaking bird's nest.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Unkindness punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q285.1.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 19 No. 183.

Within the index

Filed under Cruelty to animals punished.

1 finer motif beneath it

Boy reaches into bird's nest for pigeon's eggs. A stone in the nest holds his hand for three days and nights. He is finally released by prayers

Filed beside it

Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.)

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