Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.) — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q551.3.3

Cited in the index

general *BP I 276 n. 2, II 535.

Within the index

Filed under Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Punishment: melon in murderer's hand turns to murdered man's head

Filed beside it

Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated Punishment: transformation into animal. (Cf. Q226.2.) Transformation to stone as punishment Punishment: transformation into other object

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.)

Carried in tale types

The Tell-tale Calf's Head · ATU 780C 1 recorded variant

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