μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Unkindness punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q286

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“The Nunnery on Fire Seeing all these gods arrive to help the novice, the Superior, I Yu, held consultation with the choir-mistress, saying: "We assigned to the Princess the burdensome work of the kitchen because she refused to return to the world; but since she has entered on her duties the gods of the eight caves of Heaven have come to offer her fruit, Ch'ieh Lan sweeps the kitchen, the dragon has dug a well, the God of the Hearth and…”

— Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X · served from our shelf

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • IrishO'Suilleabhain 93, 129, 131, Beal XXI 330, 337
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 186, 202–04
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 16
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseWerner 255 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X
  • general Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 415 No. 14.
Within the index

Filed under Unkindness punished.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Uncharitableness to holy person punished. (Cf. Q1.1, Q553.3.5, Q556.11, Q589.1.)Priest will not bury dead unless paid in advance. Ruler has him buried alive with the corpse. (Cf. Q456.2.)
Filed beside it
Ingratitude punished. (Cf. Q551.6.3, Q597.2.)Irreverent young people punished by outraged old manReproach concerning physical deformity (blemish) punished. (Cf. Q411.9.)Cruelty punished. (Cf. E501.3.1, Q415.3.1.)Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.)Punishment for mockery. (Cf. Q556.8, Q583.1.)Hard-heartedness punished. (Cf. Q415.2.)Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.)Monkey destroys nest of bird who has made sport of himInjustice punished. (Cf. Q265, Q552.1.6.)Slander punished
Travels with
Uncharitable king loses power. (Cf. Q286.)Failure of crops as punishment for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.)Magic blindness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.)Magic sickness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.)Mysterious death of animals as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. D2089.3, Q286.)Man refuses to give to charity: his property disappears. (Cf. Q286, Q595.3.)Uncharitable king loses wealth. (Cf. Q286, Q585.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. HödhrGoddess of mercyAnimal as servant to manAnimal as domestic servantHelpful tigerTransformation: man to tigerTransformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowersMagic object acquired as reward for religious austeritiesMagic peachMagic hairpinMagic waters and medicinesMagic salve (ointment)

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