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Motif

Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Capital punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q411.0.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Maori Dixon 80.
Within the index

Filed under Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)

4 finer motifs beneath it
Adulterer killed Man (fairy) kills wife's lover Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms Death for repeated adultery
Filed beside it
Husband kills wife and paramour Punishment: winning as wife and then killing Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed Death of father (son, etc.) as punishment Death as punishment for treachery Hero kills mutilators of girl Death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Death as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) A man in every house in the land killed as punishment for abduction by their king Death as punishment for reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish). (Cf. Q284.) Death as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men Death as punishment for thievery Death as punishment for spying on uncanny persons Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.)

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