Rewards and punishments

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• Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q411.11
• Desecrating a sanctuary (saint's house) by murder punished. Q411.11.1
• Hanging as punishment for stealing from a church. Q411.11.2
• Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men. Q411.12
• Death as punishment for thievery. Q411.13
• Charge of theft avenged by assault. Q411.13.1
• Death as punishment for spying on uncanny persons. Q411.14
• Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat. Q411.15
• Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. Q412
• Punishment: hanging. Q413
• Threat of hanging. Q413.0.1
• Hanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q413.1
• Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q413.2
• Hanging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Q413.3
• Hanging as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q413.4
• Hanging as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Q413.5
• Impudent suitor or his messenger hanged or threatened with hanging. Q413.5.1
• Hanging as punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q225.2.) Q413.6
• Hanging as punishment for silence about hidden treasure. Q413.7
• Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q413.8
• Hanging by one foot as punishment for treachery. Q413.8.1
• Punishment: burning alive. Q414
• Burning as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Q414.0.1
• Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q414.0.2
• Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.) Q414.0.3
• Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Q414.0.3.1
• Burning as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Q414.0.4
• Ravisher's grave and body miraculously burnt. Q414.0.4.1
• Burning as punishment for abductor. Q414.0.4.2
• Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Q414.0.5
• Burning for traitor: unwittingly suggested by culprit. Q414.0.5.1
• Burning as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Q414.0.6
• Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.) Q414.0.6.1
• Innocent queen burned at stake. Q414.0.7
• Demons burn heretics at stake. (Cf. Q225.1.) Q414.0.8
• Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.) Q414.0.9
• Burning for witchcraft. Q414.0.10
• Burning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.) Q414.0.11
• Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q414.0.12
• Woman saved from being burned as punishment for killing impudent suitor. Q414.0.12.1
• Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Q414.0.13
• Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar). Q414.1
• Boiling in tar as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Q414.1.1
• Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house. Q414.2
• Punishment: burning and scattering ashes. Q414.3
• Punishment: crushing in rice mill and scattering ashes. Q414.3.1
• Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes. Q414.4
• Punishment: king hung between two fires. Q414.5
• Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. Q414.6
• Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) Q415
• Punishment: being eaten by demon. Q415.0.1
• Punishment: being eaten by dogs. Q415.1
• Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogs. Q415.1.1
• Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Q415.1.2
• Mice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.) Q415.2
• Punishment: man eaten by worms (snake). Q415.3
• Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.) Q415.3.1
• Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts). Q415.4
• Punishment: being devoured by tiger. Q415.5
• Bears devour the wicked. Q415.6
• Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) Q415.7
• Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Q415.7.1
• Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Q415.8
• Punishment: being eaten by fish. Q415.9
• Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Q416
• Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.) Q416.0.1
• Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.) Q416.0.2
• Quartering by horses as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Q416.0.2.1
• Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Q416.0.3
• Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses. Q416.1
• Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.) Q416.1.1
• Punishment: dragging to death by a horse. Q416.2
• Punishment: drawing at the tails of horses. (Cf. S117.) Q416.2.1
• Punishment: dragging to death tied to horns of a bull. Q416.2.2
• Punishment: trampling by elephants. Q416.3
• Punishment: being gored to death by elephant. Q416.3.1
• Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Q417
• Murderess forced to leap from cliff. (Cf. Q211.) Q417.1
• Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.) Q417.2
• Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.) Q417.3
• Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) Q418
• Murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad. (Cf. Q241.) Q418.1
• Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q418.2
• Punishment: beheading. Q421
• Beheading as punishment for debt. (Cf. Q271.) Q421.0.1
• Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q421.0.2
• Beheading as punishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Q421.0.3
• Beheading as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q421.0.4
• Beheading as punishment for mutilation. Q421.0.5
• Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Q421.0.6
• Beheading as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Q421.0.7
• Beheading for persecution of wife. (Cf. S410.) Q421.0.8
• Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes. Q421.1
• Head cut off and hung on tree outside village. Q421.1.1
• Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.) Q421.2
• Punishment: cutting throat. Q421.3
• Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Q422
• Punishment: beating to death. Q422.0.1
• Punishment: breaking upon a wheel. Q423
• Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) Q424
• Strangling as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q424.0.1
• King strangles falcon when it kills eagle. (Cf. Q211.6.) Q424.1
• Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q424.2
• Man strangles friar for attempting to seduce his wife. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Q424.3
• Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) Q425
• Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment. Q426
• Punishment for murder by fatal enema. (Cf. Q211.4.2.) Q426.1
• Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Q427
• Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Q428
• Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q428.1
• Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Q428.2
• Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Q428.3
• Capital punishment – miscellaneous. Q429
• Punishment: culprit eaten by cannibals. Q429.1
• Death at hands of foreign invaders as punishment. Q429.2
• Cutting into pieces as punishment. Q429.3
• Punishment: squeezing to death. Q429.4
• Abridgment of freedom as punishment. Q430
• Imposition of tabu as punishment. Q430.1
• Punishment: banishment (exile). Q431
• Saint prefers to die in exile. Q431.0.1
• Voluntary exile as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, Q431.9.) Q431.1
• Banishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q431.2
• Elder brothers banished for treachery. (Cf. K2211, Q261.) Q431.2.1
• Treachery punished by banishment to desert isle. (Cf. S145.) Q431.2.2
• King's foster brothers banished for lawlessness. Q431.2.3
• Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.) Q431.3
• Banishment till rose grows from table for preventing childbirth. (Cf. F971.2, Q251, T572).) Q431.4
• Banishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Q431.5
• Banishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Q431.5.1
• Banishment for abduction of bride (girl). Q431.5.2
• Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) Q431.5.3
• Banishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Q431.6
• Banishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Q431.7
• Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q431.8
• Banishment as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.2.) Q431.8.1
• Banishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q431.9
• Banishment for attempted murder. Q431.9.1
• Exile as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Q431.9.2
• Banishment for assault on king's tax collectors. Q431.10
• Banishment as punishment for breach of faith with animals. (Cf. Q263.) Q431.11
• Banishment as punishment for fault-finding. (Cf. Q312.) Q431.12
• Banishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Q431.13
• Berserks banished because of defeat. Q431.14
• Banishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Q431.15
• Boy banished for breaking women's water pots. Q431.16
• Banishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Q431.17
• Banishment for association with those of another faith. Q431.18
• Banishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.) Q431.19
• Punishment: ejectment. Q432
• Buzzard hatched by hawk ejected for fouling nest. (Cf. Q322.) Q432.1
• Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.) Q432.2
• Punishment: imprisonment. Q433
• Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q433.1
• Adulteress confined in a cage. (Cf. Q241.) Q433.1.1
• Defeated giants imprisoned in lower world. Q433.2
• Zeus has embassy of dogs imprisoned for fouling his court. (Cf. Q322.) Q433.3
• Imprisonment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Q433.4
• Imprisonment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Q433.5
• Priest imprisoned for incontinence. (Cf. Q243.) Q433.6
• Imprisonment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q433.7
• Imprisonment for gambling. (Cf. Q381.) Q433.8
• Wicked son confined on island. Q433.9
• Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Q433.10
• Undesired suitor's messengers imprisoned. Q433.11
• Punishment: abridgment of freedom till extravagant boast is confirmed. Q433.12
• War prisoners shut up between stones. Q433.13
• Punishment: fettering. Q434
• Adulteress and paramour fettered. (Cf. Q241.) Q434.1
• War prisoners fettered. Q434.2
• Fettering to oak. Q434.3
• Magic imprisonment in cleft tree. Q435
• Excommunication from religious association as punishment. Q436
• Sale into slavery as punishment. Q437
• Criminal's wife and children sold into slavery. Q437.1
• Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.) Q438
• Cruel punishments. Q450
• Torture as punishment. Q450.1
• Torture as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q450.1.1
• Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) Q451
• Hands and feet cut off as punishment. Q451.0.1
• Threat to cut off hand or foot. Q451.0.2
• Strong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left foot. Q451.0.3
• Hands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.0.4
• Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.) Q451.1
• Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.1.1
• Hand cut off for contempt of court. Q451.1.2
• Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q451.1.3
• Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q451.1.4
• Hand cut off as punishment for fornication. (Cf. Q243.) Q451.1.4.1
• Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.1.5
• Right hands cut off enemy's messengers. Q451.1.6
• Arms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.1.7
• Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.) Q451.2
• Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment. Q451.2.0.1
• Boring hole through heel as punishment. Q451.2.0.2
• Hamstringing as punishment. Q451.2.0.3
• Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Q451.2.1
• Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.2.2
• Foot cut off as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q451.2.3