Punishment: banishment (exile) — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: banishment (exile).

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Abridgment of freedom as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q431

Filed across the traditions

Irish *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 88, Beal XXI 328
Icelandic *Boberg
Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 350 n. 1 (Oedipus), Grote I 172 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI
Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 38, 143
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 205, 214
S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169.
general *Boje 63
general Dickson 78
general Gaster Thespis 304

Within the index

Filed under Abridgment of freedom as punishment.

20 finer motifs beneath it

Saint prefers to die in exile Voluntary exile as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, Q431.9.) Banishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.) Banishment till rose grows from table for preventing childbirth. (Cf. F971.2, Q251, T572).) Banishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Banishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Banishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Banishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Banishment for assault on king's tax collectors Banishment as punishment for breach of faith with animals. (Cf. Q263.) Banishment as punishment for fault-finding. (Cf. Q312.) Banishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Berserks banished because of defeat Banishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Boy banished for breaking women's water pots Banishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Banishment for association with those of another faith Banishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.)

Filed beside it

Imposition of tabu as punishment Punishment: ejectment Punishment: imprisonment Punishment: fettering Magic imprisonment in cleft tree Excommunication from religious association as punishment Sale into slavery as punishment Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Transformation: man to woman Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Blinding as punishment

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