μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Punishment fitted to crime.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q580

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • West Indies Flowers 570.
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.) Fitting bodily injury as punishment Transformation as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661, Q551.3.) Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.) Ungrateful son punished by having a son equally ungrateful. (Cf. Q281.1.) Punishment fitted to crime – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Saint's pet crane pecks out eye of spying person. (Cf. Q342, Q580.) Punishments in hell fitted to crimes. (Cf. Q580.)

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