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.) — Mythoi

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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.)

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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.)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.)Mysterious death as punishment for feigning sleep. (Cf. Q260.)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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Blasphemy punished. (Cf. Q551.1.8, Q558.4.)