μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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
  • Jewish*Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Prodigy as punishment.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment by arrows of fire from heavenSword (of fire) from heaven drawn upon sinnersGods pour torrents of hot ashes on kingdom as punishmentDeath by fire from heaven as punishmentDestruction of property by fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. Q595.)Fire from heaven consumes adulterous wife who has slandered an abbot. (Cf. Q227, Q414.0.3.)
Filed beside it
Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets)Death by thunderbolt as punishmentSinking of earth as punishmentFailure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.)Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.)Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.)Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.)Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.)Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.)Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.)Plague as punishmentPunishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.)Punishment: shipwreckStorm as punishment. (Cf. D905.)Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.)Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.)
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Fire from heaven kills peopleFire from heaven

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