People given charm to dispel flies grumble: flies return a thousandfold. (Cf. Q312.)

Motif

People given charm to dispel flies grumble: flies return a thousandfold. (Cf. Q312.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q557.8

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.)

Filed beside it

Poisonous toad sits on food of undutiful children. (Cf. Q281.1.) Serpent chokes woman's undutiful son. (Cf. Q281.1.) Eagle (ape) carries off ill-gotten gain. Makes away with the receipts of a merchant who had watered his wine. (Cf. Q274.) Mouse causes hair of thief to fall out. (Cf. Q551.6.4.) Saint's pet crane pecks out eye of spying person. (Cf. Q342, Q580.) Snake strikes person for opposing saint. (Cf. Q227.) Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.)

Travels with

Fault-finding punished. (Cf. Q431.12, Q451.4.6, Q557.8, W128.)

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