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

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

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
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-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

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 5551 recorded variant

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