μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IrishO'Suilleabhain 125, Beal XXI 336
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera 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 itMan 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 anotherMan 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 othersFitting bodily injury as punishmentTransformation 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 youthJealous 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
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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