Famine as punishment

Motif

Famine as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q552.3.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Loomis White Magic 95, 102

Within the index

Filed under Failure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Sterility of land as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.)

Filed beside it

Failure of crops as punishment for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.)Failure of crops as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)Failure of crops and milk as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Failure of crops for mistreating the dead Famine as punishment for oppression by victors Drought as punishment Food magically disappears Punishment for greed: streams of sugar, molasses, and milk from anchorite's tomb dry up and petrify because of townspeople's greed. (Cf. Q272.)Punishment: water famine Murrain upon cattle as punishment

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