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Motif

Punishment: death pretended becomes real.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miscellaneous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q591.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
  • general Revue Celtique xxvii 297
Within the index

Filed under Punishment: lie becomes truth. (Cf. Q263.)

1 finer motif beneath it
King tests saint by having man feign death; saint perceives trick and causes man to be dead
Filed beside it
Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so Man dies from pretended illness
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.)

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