μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person drinks poison he prepared for another.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q582.8

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Filed under Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.)

Filed beside it
Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it Man who brings fire to his house at devil's instigation burns to death. (Cf. Q233.) Murderer killed by his own spear. (Cf. Q211.) Man dies from drop of blood of pet hound he has killed. (Cf. Q211.6.) Man boasts he fears saint no more than hornless sheep; killed by hornless sheep. (Cf. Q333.1.) Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.) Boy who threw stones at clerics killed by thrown stone. (Cf. Q227.) Man falls dead when he sees his sons whom he has reared in sin all killed

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