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Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice.

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Filed across the traditions
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Filed under Prodigy as punishment.

Filed beside it
Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets) Death by thunderbolt as punishment Sinking of earth as punishment Failure 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 punishment Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Punishment: shipwreck Fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. F797, F962.2.) Storm as punishment. (Cf. D905.) Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.)

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