μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • IrishMacCulloch Celtic 72, *Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • GreekGrote I 171, 203
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Prodigy as punishment.

11 finer motifs beneath 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 deadFamine as punishmentFamine as punishment for oppression by victorsDrought as punishmentFood magically disappearsPunishment 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 famineMurrain upon cattle as punishment
Filed beside it
Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets)Death by thunderbolt as punishmentSinking of earth as punishmentEar 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: shipwreckFire 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.)Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.)
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Recurrent plague during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.3.)

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