Rewards and punishments

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• Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.2.4
• Loss of speech as punishment. Q451.3
• Dumbness as punishment for hiding children. Q451.3.1
• Dumbness as punishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.3.2
• Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.) Q451.3.3
• Son stricken dumb as punishment for father's opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Q451.3.3.1
• Dumbness as punishment for blasphemy. Q451.3.4
• Tongue cut off as punishment. Q451.4
• Tongue cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.4.1
• Tongue cut out as punishment for gossip. (Cf. Q314.) Q451.4.2
• Tongue cut off as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Q451.4.3
• Tongue cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q451.4.4
• Tongue cut out as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q451.4.5
• Tongue cut out as punishment for fault-finding (satire). (Cf. Q312.) Q451.4.6
• Man pulls out his own tongue in remorse. Q451.4.7
• Tongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.4.8
• Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Q451.4.8.1
• Hanging by tongue as punishment. Q451.4.9
• Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Q451.4.10
• Nose cut off as punishment. Q451.5
• Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.5.1
• Mistress's nose cut off as punishment for faithlessness. Q451.5.1.1
• Nose cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.5.2
• Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.5.3
• Nose cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q451.5.4
• Ears cut off as punishment. Q451.6
• Girl (fairy) bites off ear of ravisher. (Cf. F304.4.1, Q244.) Q451.6.0.1
• Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.6.1
• Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.6.2
• Blinding as punishment. Q451.7
• Loss of one eye as punishment. Q451.7.0.1
• Miraculous blindness as punishment. (Cf. Q559.2.) Q451.7.0.2
• Miraculous blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q571.1.) Q451.7.0.2.1
• Miraculous blindness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q451.7.0.2.2
• Miraculous blindness as punishment for disobedience. (Cf. Q325.) Q451.7.0.2.3
• Miraculous blindness as punishment for criminal intent. (Cf. Q210.1.) Q451.7.0.2.4
• Miraculous blindness as punishment for spying (on druids, fairies, witches, etc.). Q451.7.0.2.5
• Blinding as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.7.1
• Blinding as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Q451.7.2
• Blinding (of father) as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.3.) Q451.7.2.1
• Blinding as punishment for attempt to violate girl (queen). Q451.7.2.2
• Blinding as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Q451.7.3
• Blinding as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q451.7.4
• Wicked son blinded. Q451.7.5
• Punishment: thong of leather cut from back. Q451.8
• Punishment: woman's breasts cut off. Q451.9
• Punishment: woman suspended by her breasts. Q451.9.1
• Punishment: genitalia cut off. Q451.10
• Punishment: castration. (Cf. K2111.3.) Q451.10.1
• Piecemeal mutilation as punishment. Q451.11
• Deception punished by piecemeal mutilation. Q451.11.1
• Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.12
• Punishment: head split into many pieces. Q451.13
• Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.14
• Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts. Q452
• Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) Q453
• Punishment: being bitten by ants. Q453.1
• Punishment: being bitten by scorpion. Q453.2
• Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) Q455
• Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q455.1
• Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q455.2
• Adulteress walled up with corpse of paramour. Q455.2.1
• Adulteress confined in room containing the corpse of her paramour. She becomes ill and dies. Q455.2.1.1
• Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) Q456
• Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q456.0.1
• Burial alive as punishment for swindling. (Cf. Q274.) Q456.0.2
• Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.) Q456.0.3
• Punishment: burial alive up to the breast (neck). Q456.1
• Cast-forth wife buried up to the waist for seven years and despitefully used. Q456.1.1
• Burial alive for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.2.) Q456.2
• Flaying alive as punishment. Q457
• Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god. Q457.1
• Devil flays impious person. (Cf. G303, Q220.) Q457.2
• Flaying alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q457.3
• Flaying alive as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Q457.4
• Flogging as punishment. Q458
• Flogging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q458.0.1
• Flogging as punishment for disobedience to rulers. (Cf. Q325.) Q458.0.2
• Flogging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q458.0.3
• Flogging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Q458.0.4
• Flogging as punishment for reviling church. (Cf. Q225.) Q458.0.5
• Flogging as punishment for desire to commit adultery. (Cf. Q241.1.) Q458.0.6
• Daily beatings as punishment. Q458.1
• Flogging to death as punishment. (Cf. Q410, S122.) Q458.2
• Brother flogs unchaste sister to death. (Cf. Q243.) Q458.2.1
• Flogging to death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q458.2.2
• Flogging to death as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Q458.2.3
• Impalement as punishment. Q461
• Impalement as punishment for faithlessness. Enemy chief has the faithless widow of his victim impaled. Q461.1
• Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment. Q461.2
• Impaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q461.3
• Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.) Q462
• Punishment: nailing to pillar. Q462.1
• Punishment by hanging up by the feet. Q462.2
• Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside. Q463
• Covering with honey and exposing to flies. Q464
• Throwing into a pit as punishment. Q465
• Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment. Q465.1
• Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve. Q465.2
• Punishment: pushing into well. Q465.3
• Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit. Q465.4
• Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment. Q466
• Embarkation in rudderless boat as punishment. Q466.0.1
• Punishment: setting adrift in boat. Q466.0.2
• Husband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.) Q466.1
• Punishment: abandonment on cliff that is submerged at high tide. Q466.2
• Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Q467
• Casting into water in sack (barrel) as punishment. (Cf. Q474, S142.) Q467.1
• Thief cast into water in a sack containing a cock, a snake, and a monkey. He had stolen a sacred statue of gold. (Cf. Q212, Q220.) Q467.2
• Punishment: drowning in swamp. (Cf. Q474.) Q467.3
• Punishment: sea-spell chanted by druidess causes rival to drown. Q467.3.1
• Man thrown into waterfall as punishment for alleged violating of princess. (Cf. Q244.) Q467.4
• Marooning as punishment. Q467.5
• Other cruel punishments. Q469
• Adulteress caused to fall down stairs from which steps have been removed. (Cf. Q241.) Q469.1
• Punishment: climbing red-hot rod. (Cf. S112.2.) Q469.2
• Punishment: grinding up in a mill. Q469.3
• Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Q469.4
• Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle words. Q469.5
• Heart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.) Q469.6
• Heart of murderer cut out. (Cf. Q211.) Q469.6.0.1
• Heart and liver of son to be torn out. (Cf. S194.) Q469.6.1
• Punishment: twisting entrails from body. Q469.7
• Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q469.7.1
• Punishment: sawing in twain. Q469.8
• Punishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.) Q469.9
• Punishment: tearing off flesh with hot pincers. Q469.9.1
• Punishment: piercing with needles. Q469.9.2
• Scalding as punishment. Q469.10
• Scalding as punishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Q469.10.1
• Scalding as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q469.10.2
• Scalding as punishment for insult. Q469.10.3
• Baby son hurled into battle as punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. Q247, Q411.3.) Q469.11
• Murderer torn limb from limb. (Cf. Q211, Q416.) Q469.12
• Hands in cleft log as punishment. (Cf. K1111, Q435.) Q469.13
• Humiliating punishments. Q470
• Spitting in face as punishment. Q471
• Persecuted queen meanly clothed and set where all are commanded to spit on her. Q471.1
• Beggar avenges self on queen who spits at him by disguising as prince and spitting in her face. Q471.2
• Branding as punishment. (Cf. H55.) Q472
• Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.) Q473
• Insolvent debtor drawn through streets. (Cf. Q271.) Q473.0.1
• Corpse of adulteress drawn through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Q473.0.2
• Punishment: riding through street on bull. Q473.1
• Adulteress ridden through street on bull. (Cf. Q241.) Q473.1.1
• Punishment: tying to horse's tail. Q473.2
• Wife's paramour tied to horse's tail and conducted through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Q473.2.1
• Seducer, who had disguised as woman, is led naked through streets. (Cf. Q243.2.) Q473.3
• Importunate lover put asleep in street. Q473.4
• Punishment: sending out of town on donkeys. Q473.5
• Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. Q473.5.1
• Riding backwards on donkey as punishment. Q473.5.2
• Punishment: princess to display self on roof. Q473.6
• "Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown in. Q474
• Tar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.) Q475
• Tar and feathers as punishment for vanity. Q475.1
• Shower of pitch as punishment. Q475.2
• Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends). Q476
• Frightful meal as punishment. Q478
• The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) Q478.1
• Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion. Q478.1.1
• Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.) Q478.1.2
• Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull. Q478.1.2.1
• Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room. Q478.1.3
• Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals. Q478.1.4
• Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.) Q478.2
• Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Q478.3
• Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles. Q478.4
• Punishment: eating ashes instead of food. Q478.5
• Punishment: eating ashes (coal) mixed with food. Q478.5.1
• Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.) Q481
• Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.) Q482
• Princess serves as menial. Q482.1
• Second wife (slave) must serve as menial. Q482.1.1
• Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher. Q482.2
• Queen forced to do menial service rescued by son. Q482.2.1
• Queen ordered to go and live in woodcutter's house as servant. Q482.2.2
• Nobleman after death must serve as menial. Q482.3
• Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside. Q482.4
• Queen made to scare crows away in fields. Q482.5
• Punishment: man must do women's work. Q482.6
• Princess must sell goods on market as punishment. Q483
• Condemned queen exposed in leather on market place. Q483.1
• Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q484
• Noble person must live in hovel. Q485
• Princess married to lowly hero must live in slave quarters. Q485.1
• Criminal's property destroyed as punishment. Q486
• Criminal's house burned down. Q486.1
• Sinful city burnt as punishment. Q486.1.1
• Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) Q487
• Cutting hair as punishment. Q488
• Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.) Q488.1
• Head shaved as punishment. Q488.2
• Indignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.) Q491
• Disgraceful burial as punishment. Q491.1
• Swindler buried on dungheap. (Cf. Q274.) Q491.1.1
• Burial in deserted barn as punishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Q491.1.2
• Debtor's corpse flogged. (Cf. Q271.) Q491.2
• Devil beats wicked man's corpse. Q491.3
• Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave. Q491.4