μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • Africa (Fang)Tessman 195.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous punishments.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Fortress ravaged when saint is refused admittance. (Cf. Q227.)Cattle killed, crops burned as punishment for abduction. (Cf. Q213.)Uncharitable king loses wealth. (Cf. Q286, Q585.1.)Loss of money as punishment
Filed beside it
Punishment: lie becomes truth. (Cf. Q263.)Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.)Punishment: taking snakes as foster childrenPunishment in effigyAnimals avenge injury. (Cf. Q557.)Punishment: fighting all who pass through forestOther punishments
Travels with
Destruction of property by thunderbolt as punishment. (Cf. Q595.)Destruction of property by fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. Q595.)Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.)Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.)Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.)

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