Death of children as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Death of children as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q553.4

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Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Divine favor withdrawn as punishment.

1 finer motif beneath it

Child taken from parents because they have ceased to think of God. (Cf. Q223.1.)

Filed beside it

Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) 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.)

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