Performing impossible task as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) — Mythoi

Motif

Performing impossible task as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q512.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.)

Filed beside it

Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.) Punishment: ridding country of pests

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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