Magic imprisonment in cleft tree

Motif

Magic imprisonment in cleft tree.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Abridgment of freedom as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as Q435

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New GuineaDixon 137. Cf. Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest and Fradubio in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I.

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Filed under Abridgment of freedom as punishment.

Filed beside it

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

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Hands in cleft log as punishment. (Cf. K1111, Q435.)

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