Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q553.2

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa II No. 81, Espinosa Jr. No. 186.
general Type 756A
general Köhler-Bolte I 147f., 578

Within the index

Filed under Divine favor withdrawn as punishment.

Filed beside it

Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) Death of children as punishment Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Failure in all efforts as punishment Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.)

Carried in tale types

The Self-Righteous Hermit · ATU 756A 1 recorded variant

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