μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera 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 othersFitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.)Fitting bodily injury as punishmentTransformation as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661, Q551.3.)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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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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