μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera 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 othersFitting 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 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

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