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.) — Mythoi

Motif

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.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q553.5

Cited in the index

general Type 832.

Within the index

Filed under Divine favor withdrawn as punishment.

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.) Death of children as punishment 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.)

Murder of children punished. (Cf. Q418.2, Q455.1, Q553.5.)

Carried in tale types

The Disappointed Fisherman · ATU 832 1 recorded variant

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