Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.)

Motif

Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q552.9

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 19 No. 186.
general *Type 755
general *Fb "skygge" III 347ab

Within the index

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.)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

Punishment for refusal to have children. (Cf. Q431.4, Q552.9, T572.)

Carried in tale types

Sin and Grace · ATU 7552 recorded variants

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