Ceaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.)

Motif

Ceaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q501.8

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Unremitting torture as punishment.

Filed beside it

Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall Punishment of Loki. A serpent above him continually drops venom in his face Punishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.)Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continually Punishment of Io. Transformed to cow with gadfly ceaselessly pursuing Unremittent thirst as punishment Spirit in hell must bathe people endlessly. (Cf. Q578.)

Travels with

Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.)

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