Humble rewarded, haughty punished

Motif

Humble rewarded, haughty punished.

Rewards and punishments. · Rewards and punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q4

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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Rewards and punishments.

Filed beside it

Hospitality rewarded – opposite punished Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished Laziness punished; industry rewarded Good thoughts rewarded, bad punished Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places

Travels with

Humble man miraculously saved from drowning. (Cf. Q4.)

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