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Punishment fitted to crime – miscellaneous.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q589

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Filed under Punishment fitted to crime.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Horses fail when owner refuses load to saint. (Cf. Q286.1, Q557.) Man goes forth naked: cursed with nakedness throughout life. (Cf. Q556.) Punishment for stinginess: amends made by being generous and liberal. (Cf. Q276.)
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.) 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.)

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