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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.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q492

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
  • general Spargo Virgil the Necromancer (Cambridge, Mass., 1934) 199ff.
  • general *Oertel Studien zur vgl. Literaturgeschichte VIII 113
Within the index

Filed under Humiliating punishments.

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.) Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.) 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.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic extinguishing of fires. (Cf. D1656, Q492.)

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