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Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Loomis White Magic 100
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous punishments.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: death pretended becomes real Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so Man dies from pretended illness
Filed beside it
Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.) Punishment: taking snakes as foster children Loss or destruction of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.1.0.1, Q552.13.2, Q552.14.1, Q585, Q552.18.) Punishment in effigy Animals avenge injury. (Cf. Q557.) Punishment: fighting all who pass through forest Other punishments
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1, Q421.2, Q428.3, Q451.3.3, Q451.7.0.2.1, Q457.4, Q494.1, Q551.2.1, Q551.6.2, Q551.7.1, Q551.8.4, Q551.9.1, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q552.1.4, Q552.2.0.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.3, Q552.2.3.2.1, Q552.2.3.2.3, Q552.13.1.1, Q552.13.2.1, Q552.13.2.2, Q552.13.3, Q552.15, Q552.16, Q552.18.1, Q552.18.2, Q552.19.1, Q556.4, Q556.5, Q557.6, Q558.13, Q559.5, Q559.7, Q571.1, Q572.3, Q575, Q576.1, Q582.7, Q591, Q595.1.) Lying (perjury) punished. (Cf. Q431.17, Q451.1.7, Q451.3.2, Q451.5.3, Q451.7.1, Q488.1, Q551.6.1, Q551.8.5, Q551.9.2, Q552.1.7, Q558.2, Q558.15, Q591.)

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