μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fitting bodily injury as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q583

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 16.
Within the index

Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Man who laughs at blind made blind. (Cf. Q288, Q451.7.0.2.) Man stricken dumb for surly speech. (Cf. Q327, Q451.3.) Man seeking to flee saint paralyzed. (Cf. Q551.7.1.) Lying woman's tongue swells. (Cf. Q551.6.1.)
Filed beside it
Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.) 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

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