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Frightful meal as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q478

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“The people heard that the children had abundance of food of all kinds, and they all moved to them. When they arrived the children invited them, and the various companies came and ate with them. Finally they all went out again; only the children’s father now stayed with them again. But they regretted what he had done to them. So they caused the lions to jump upon their father, and he was killed.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 63 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 597.
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Filed under Humiliating punishments.

5 finer motifs beneath it
The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.)Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.)Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.)Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candlesPunishment: eating ashes instead of food
Filed beside it
Spitting in face as punishmentBranding as punishment. (Cf. H55.)Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.)"Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown inTar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.)Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends)Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.)Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.)Princess must sell goods on market as punishmentHusband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Noble person must live in hovelCriminal's property destroyed as punishmentAdulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.)Cutting hair as punishmentIndignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.)Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches
Travels with
Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.)Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Snake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.)Maiming by magicMagic sickness. (Cf. D1837.)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.)Pursuit by rolling object

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