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Motif

Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q511

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
  • general RTP II 267, VIII 586
  • general FL IX 375ff. No. 3
  • general Zs. f. österreichische Volkskunde VII 197
Within the index

Filed under Tedious punishments.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until stone as long as murdered man is found. This is to be put on the grave Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until another can be induced to take it
Filed beside it
Unremitting torture as punishment Wandering as a punishment Wandering after death as punishment Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

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