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Motif

Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q586

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 756B, 838
  • general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 88
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 493), 128 (ST 365, 499)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 351
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 19
  • general Crane Vitry 259 No. 287
  • general *Chauvin VIII 113 No. 95 n. 1
  • general Alphabet No. 217. Spanish Exempla: Keller
Within the index

Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

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.) Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) 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
Carried in tale types

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