μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q581

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 2, III No. 10, V Nos. 8, 9
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Cox 503 and passim (under head "villain nemesis")
  • general *Fb "dom" IV 101b
  • general *Wesselski Theorie 139
  • general Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 to Gonzenbach No. 13
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 116
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 83), 51 (ET 109, 110), 59 (ET 199), 132 (ST 382), 135 (ST 406, 447)
  • general Halm Aesop Nos. 18, 326. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Loss of life as result of one's own treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Unusual murder avenged in like manner Villain in hiding killed by blow aimed at his victim Those planning to drown others drowned
Filed beside it
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
Carried in tale types

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