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Motif

Animals avenge injury. (Cf. Q557.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miscellaneous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q597

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Filed under Miscellaneous punishments.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Snake carries into fire man who has banned snakes Birds take back their feathers from ungrateful wolf to whom they have lent them. (Cf. Q281.) Bees sting honey-thieves. (Cf. Q212.)
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 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 Punishment: fighting all who pass through forest Other punishments
Travels with
Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.)

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