Food disappears because of wastefulness — Mythoi

Motif

Food disappears because of wastefulness.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q585.4

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.)

Filed beside it

Man refuses to give to charity: his property disappears. (Cf. Q286, Q595.3.) Destruction (disappearance) of property got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) During rainy spring, farmer wishes that Lord would sleep till harvest time. Farmer himself sleeps until all neighbors have finished harvesting. When he wakes, he finds his crops ruined. (Cf. Q235.)

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