μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Divine favor withdrawn as punishment.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 hermitSterility 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 punishmentRains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.)

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