μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish O'Suilleabhain 125, Beal XXI 336
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 374, II 851, 1353
  • Africa (Duala) Lederbogen JAS IV 61, (Wakweli): Bender 106f.
Within the index

Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

9 finer motifs beneath 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.) Person drinks poison he prepared for another Man falls dead when he sees his sons whom he has reared in sin all killed
Filed beside it
Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others 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.)
Death or bodily injury by magic. (Cf. C920f., D1207.1, D1400, D2089.3.) Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.)

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