μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q552.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish MacCulloch Celtic 72, *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Greek Grote I 171, 203
  • Jewish Neuman
  • 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 dead Famine as punishment 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
Filed beside it
Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets) Death by thunderbolt as punishment Sinking of earth as punishment 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.) Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Recurrent plague during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.3.)

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