Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.) — Mythoi

Motif

Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Overweening punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q338

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Jewish Neuman
India Thompson-Balys.
general Type 555

Within the index

Filed under Overweening punished. (Cf. Q552.19.1, Q582.5.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Request for immortality punished by transformation into tree The devil's likeness. A squire demands somebody to paint a living picture of the devil; when he sees it, he dies

Filed beside it

Pride punished. (Cf. Q552.19.5.) Boldness punished

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Ceaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Poets lose ability to compose verse as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Magic sickness as punishment for immoderate request remitted. (Cf. Q338.) Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.) Destruction (disappearance) of property got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.)

Carried in tale types

The Fisherman and his Wife · ATU 555 1 recorded variant

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