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Motif

Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q482

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish *Cross, Beal XXI 319f., O'Suilleabhain 53
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Greek Grote I 54
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/48, z-G. 3/1386).
Within the index

Filed under Humiliating punishments.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Princess serves as menial Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher Nobleman after death must serve as menial Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside Queen made to scare crows away in fields Punishment: man must do women's work
Filed beside it
Spitting in face as punishment Branding 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 in Tar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.) Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends) Frightful meal as punishment Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.) Princess must sell goods on market as punishment Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Noble person must live in hovel Criminal's property destroyed as punishment Adulteress 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 punishment Indignity 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
God serves as menial on earth Test of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial work

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