μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mysterious death as punishment for feigning sleep. (Cf. Q260.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q558.10

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Filed under Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.)

Filed beside it
Scoffing priest mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q225.) Perjurer stricken dead. (Cf. Q263.) Usurer flees city to escape plague. On his return he boasts that God did not get him. He takes the plague and dies. (Cf. Q221.3.) Blasphemer stricken dead. (Cf. Q221.3.) Man in anger throws stone at the image of the Virgin. Is stricken dead. (Cf. Q222.) Mysterious death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Mysterious death as punishment for wrongful satire. (Cf. Q265.2.) Mysterious death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Animals which eat of saint's body stricken dead. (Cf. B275.3, Q220.) Mysterious death as punishment for worshiping idols on All-Saints-Day Mysterious death as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q574.1.) Mysterious death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Mysterious death as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263.) Mysterious death as punishment for false judging Death by ulcer for destroying churches. (Cf. Q222.)
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Deceptions punished. (Cf. Q551.2, Q558.10.)

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