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Motif

Punishment: banishment (exile).

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

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“Further, they all, except Anto- ninus Liberalis, agree that the blindness of Tiresias was a punishment inflicted on him by Hera (Juno) because his answer to the question was displeasing to her. According to Phlegon, Hyginus, Lactantius Placidus, and the Second beheld snakes copulating on Cyllene, and that having wounded them he was turned from a man into a woman, but that on observing the same snakes copulating again, he became ἃ man.!”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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*Cross, O'Suilleabhain 88, Beal XXI 328
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 350 n. 1 (Oedipus), Grote I 172 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 38, 143
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 205, 214
  • S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169.
  • general *Boje 63
  • general Dickson 78
  • general Gaster Thespis 304
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Filed under Abridgment of freedom as punishment.

20 finer motifs beneath it
Saint prefers to die in exileVoluntary 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 collectorsBanishment 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 defeatBanishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.)Boy banished for breaking women's water potsBanishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.)Banishment for association with those of another faithBanishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.)
Filed beside it
Imposition of tabu as punishmentPunishment: ejectmentPunishment: imprisonmentPunishment: fetteringMagic imprisonment in cleft treeExcommunication from religious association as punishmentSale into slavery as punishmentPunishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansedHelpful horseAnimals save person's life. (Cf. B540.)Tabu: revealing secrets of godTabu: man looking at nude goddessTransformation: man to womanMan looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.)Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of deathRiddle 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 ladderPunishment for splitting head and eating man's brainsBlinding as punishment

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