Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) — Mythoi

Motif

Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q553.3

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Divine favor withdrawn as punishment.

8 finer motifs beneath it

Sterility of women as punishment God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) Children of incestuous father die without issue. (Cf. Q242.) Sterility as punishment for breaking saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Sterility as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Sterility as punishment for uncharitableness to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1.) Painful birth of children as punishment Punishment: reduced number of children

Filed beside it

Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit 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.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Barrenness or impotence induced by magic

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