μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Famine as punishment.

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

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India Thompson-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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