Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) — Mythoi

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

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

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 885, II 416, 1264.

Within the index

Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

4 finer motifs beneath 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.) Food disappears because of wastefulness

Filed beside it

Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.) Fitting bodily injury as punishment Transformation as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661, Q551.3.) 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.)

Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) Loss or destruction of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.1.0.1, Q552.13.2, Q552.14.1, Q585, Q552.18.)

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