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Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q587

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  • general *Warncke Lais der Marie de France 2d ed. cxxvi.
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Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

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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.)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 youthUngrateful son punished by having a son equally ungrateful. (Cf. Q281.1.)Punishment fitted to crime – miscellaneous
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Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.)

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