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Prodigy as punishment.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • West Indies Flowers 569f.
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Filed under Miraculous punishments.

26 finer motifs beneath 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.) 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.) Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.) Eclipse as punishment Man vomits heart as punishment and lives without it till his death Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice Punishment: being suspended between heaven and earth +2 more
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Supernatural manifestations at death of wicked person Magic manifestations as punishments Divine favor withdrawn as punishment Mysterious visitation as punishment Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.) Curse as punishment Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.) Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.) Other miraculous punishments
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Saint decrees offenders will not be able to fortify their dwellings. Fences fall, earth gapes when dug. (Cf. D2192, Q227, Q552.)

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