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Punishment for stinginess: bundle of fuel (pitcher of lime) sticks to man's head. (Cf. Q276.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q551.2.8

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Punishment: animal skin grows on man's back. He had masked in the skin in order to cheat.

1 finer motif beneath it
Punishment for cupidity: rich man's foot caught in church door: extricated only when he sends money to beggar
Filed beside it
Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.) Miraculous adhesion of objects to human hand as punishment for working on holy day. (Cf. Q223.6.) Thief rendered unable to remove burden of stolen goods from his back. (Cf. Q212.) Corpse of murdered man sticks to murderer's back. (Cf. Q211.) Instrument or tool for unlawful work becomes attached to person holding it Sacrilege and blasphemy punished by magic adhesion. (Cf. Q221.3.) Priest's concubine is unable to rise from stone. She is finally freed by prayers and repentance. (Cf. Q243.1.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Stinginess punished. (Cf. Q551.2.8, Q589.4.)

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