Rewards and punishments

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• Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.) Q491.5
• Corpse of murderer mutilated. (Cf. Q211.) Q491.6
• Murderer's corpse cut into pieces. Q491.6.1
• Punishment: throwing dead body into river. Q491.7
• Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches. Q492
• Punishment: being saddled and ridden as horse. Q493
• Adulteress transformed to mare and stirruped. (Cf. Q241.) Q493.1
• Loss of social position as punishment. Q494
• Line of kingship taken from king who defies saint. (Cf. Q227.) Q494.1
• Uncharitable king loses power. (Cf. Q286.) Q494.1.1
• Removal from priesthood as punishment. Q494.2
• Punishment: unseemly exposure of body. Q495
• Lazy wife taken naked in bundle of straw to a wedding. (Cf. Q321.) Q495.1
• Beard shaved as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, P672.) Q497
• Moustache pulled out as punishment. Q497.1
• Other humiliating punishments. Q499
• Humiliating kiss as punishment. Q499.1
• Humiliation through kissing a leper as punishment. Q499.1.1
• Humiliating death as punishment. (Cf. Q411.) Q499.2
• Humiliating death as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q499.2.1
• Humiliating death as punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q243.3.) Q499.2.2
• Sacrament refused as punishment for desecration of holy place. (Cf. Q222.) Q499.3
• Satirizing as punishment for refusal to grant request. (Cf. Q287.) Q499.4
• Satirizing as punishment for breaking treaty. Q499.4.1
• Debtor clerics forbidden churchly offices. (Cf. Q271.) Q499.5
• Penance for three years and a half for eating horseflesh. Q499.6
• Humiliating marriage as punishment. Q499.7
• Humiliating penance: king to rub nose five times on red hot griddle. Q499.8
• Tedious punishments. Q500
• Unremitting torture as punishment. Q501
• Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down. Q501.1
• Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall. Q501.2
• When hungry man tries to gather fruit it flies out of his reach. Q501.2.1
• Punishment: delicious food always fills with maggots just as man is about to eat it. Q501.2.2
• Punishment of Loki. A serpent above him continually drops venom in his face. Q501.3
• Punishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.) Q501.4
• Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continually. Q501.5
• Punishment of Io. Transformed to cow with gadfly ceaselessly pursuing. Q501.6
• Unremittent thirst as punishment. Q501.7
• Salt food without drink as punishment for man who accepts Christianity. (Cf. Q232.) Q501.7.1
• Ceaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Q501.8
• Spirit in hell must bathe people endlessly. (Cf. Q578.) Q501.9
• Wandering as a punishment. Q502
• The Wandering Jew. Ceaseless wandering with inability to die as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q502.1
• Punishment: wandering till iron shoes are worn out. Q502.2
• Tribe's long wandering in wilderness as punishment. Q502.3
• Wandering after death as punishment. Q503
• Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.) Q503.1
• Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.) Q511
• Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until stone as long as murdered man is found. This is to be put on the grave. Q511.1
• Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until another can be induced to take it. Q511.2
• Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.) Q512
• Performing impossible task as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q512.0.1
• Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Q512.1
• Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.) Q512.2
• Punishment: ridding country of pests. Q512.3
• Penances. Q520
• Substitutions for penances. Q520.0.1
• Murderer does penance. (Cf. Q171.1.1, Q211.) Q520.1
• Robber does penance. (Cf. Q212.) Q520.2
• Life-long penance for brother-sister marriage. Q520.3
• King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed. Q520.4
• Penance in wilderness as punishment for men who left holy orders to marry. (Cf. Q226.) Q520.5
• Warrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbers. Q520.6
• Tedious penances. (Cf. H1110, Q500.) Q521
• Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch. Q521.1
• Penance: crawling on knees and watering a dry staff until it blooms. Q521.1.1
• Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms. Q521.1.2
• Penance: carrying bag of stones (one for each murder) on the back until it falls off. (Cf. Q211.) Q521.2
• Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off. Q521.3
• Penance: pasturing black sheep until they become white. Q521.4
• Penance: ferryman setting people over a stream until relieved by another. Q521.5
• Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses. Q521.6
• Penance to be done until seven spires of Benares are reduced to powder and rebuilt. Q521.7
• Self-torture as penance. Q522
• Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.) Q522.1
• Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife. Q522.2
• Penance: creeping naked through thorns. Q522.3
• Penance: pilgrimage with hands and loins weighted with iron. Q522.4
• Penance: iron band forged round a man's waist. Q522.5
• Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff. Q522.6
• Penance: wearing friar's cord about bare skin. Q522.7
• Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing. Q522.8
• Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.) Q523
• Penance: crawling to Rome on knees. Q523.1
• Penance: crawling to grave on knees. Q523.1.1
• Penance: walking on all-fours like beast. Q523.2
• Penance: eating food offered to dogs. Q523.3
• Penance: living under stairs as mendicant. Q523.4
• Penance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.) Q523.5
• Penance: slain cats, dogs, etc. to be hung up and covered with grain by man who has killed them. Q523.6
• Penance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.) Q523.7
• Penance: performing all services asked for by anyone. Q523.8
• Penance: king to take off crown and lick spittle from ground. Q523.9
• Penance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes. Q523.10
• Fearful penances. Q524
• Penance: spending lonely night in cave. Q524.1
• Penance: lying the first night with every corpse brought to certain church. Q524.2
• Dangerous penances. Q525
• Penance: staying on rock in dashing sea. Q525.1
• Pilgrimage as penance. Q526
• Penance: inviting one Brahmin for dinner every Wednesday. Q527
• Negative penances. Q535
• Penance: not to speak. Q535.1
• Penance: lioness foregoes meat. Her two cubs are killed. The jackal tells her that he has had the same experience. She gives up eating meat and lives on grass. Q535.2
• Refraining from sexual intercourse as penance. (Cf. C110.) Q535.3
• Lone fasting as penance. Q535.4
• Penance: resisting temptation. (Cf. T330.) Q537
• Penance: adulteress masks as monk and lives chastely in monastery. (Cf. Q241.) Q537.1
• Cleric tempts self among beautiful women, lives chastely. Q537.2
• Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance. Q541
• Penance: sitting in water. Q541.1
• Standing in (Jordan and Tigris) rivers as penance (by Adam and Eve). (Cf. A1331.) Q541.1.1
• Penance: standing in water for forty days. Q541.2
• Penance: Gregory on the stone. Standing on a stone (pillar) as penance for incest. (Cf. Q242, T415.) Q541.3
• Penance: keeping self suspended on two iron hooks placed under armpits. Q541.4
• Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair. Q541.5
• Penance: giving all earnings to poor. Q542
• Penance: being locked in cellar (well) with key thrown into water. Q544
• Murderer's penance complete when he kills a greater murderer and prevents a crime. (Cf. Q211.) Q545
• Miraculous punishments. Q550
• Supernatural manifestations at death of wicked person. Q550.1
• Magic manifestations as punishments. Q551
• Undutiful son punished by toad clinging to face. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q551.1
• Betel-nut grows upon a person's knee as a punishment. Q551.1.1
• Punishment: animal skin grows on man's back. He had masked in the skin in order to cheat. Q551.2
• Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.) Q551.2.1
• Miraculous adhesion of objects to human hand as punishment for working on holy day. (Cf. Q223.6.) Q551.2.2
• Thief rendered unable to remove burden of stolen goods from his back. (Cf. Q212.) Q551.2.3
• Corpse of murdered man sticks to murderer's back. (Cf. Q211.) Q551.2.4
• Instrument or tool for unlawful work becomes attached to person holding it. Q551.2.5
• Sacrilege and blasphemy punished by magic adhesion. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q551.2.6
• Priest's concubine is unable to rise from stone. She is finally freed by prayers and repentance. (Cf. Q243.1.) Q551.2.7
• Punishment for stinginess: bundle of fuel (pitcher of lime) sticks to man's head. (Cf. Q276.) Q551.2.8
• Punishment for cupidity: rich man's foot caught in church door: extricated only when he sends money to beggar. Q551.2.8.1
• Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.) Q551.3
• Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated. Q551.3.1
• Punishment: transformation into animal. (Cf. Q226.2.) Q551.3.2
• Punishment: Loki's son transformed into wolf which tears his brother to pieces. Q551.3.2.1
• Punishment: woman transformed into bird. Q551.3.2.2
• Punishment: transformation into frog. Q551.3.2.3
• Punishment: transformation into monkey. Q551.3.2.4
• Punishment: man transformed to a mass of worms. Q551.3.2.5
• Punishment: transformation to ass. Q551.3.2.6
• Punishment: transformation to dog. Q551.3.2.7
• Punishment: transformation to calf. Q551.3.2.8
• Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.) Q551.3.3
• Punishment: melon in murderer's hand turns to murdered man's head. Q551.3.3.1
• Transformation to stone as punishment. Q551.3.4
• Scoffers turned to stone by saint. (Cf. Q225.) Q551.3.4.1
• Man curses wind; he is turned to stone, along with sack from which he is sowing. (Cf. Q221.) Q551.3.4.2
• Nun breaks her vow. She is turned to stone. (Cf. Q226.) Q551.3.4.3
• Punishment: transformation into other object. Q551.3.5
• Punishment: transformation into falling star. Q551.3.5.1
• Punishment: transformation into tree. Q551.3.5.2
• Punishment: animals become sick. Q551.4
• Punishment: horses become sick. Q551.4.1
• Reincarnation as punishment. (Cf. E600, Q584.3.) Q551.5
• Reincarnation into degraded form as punishment. Q551.5.1
• Punishment: man reborn as girl. (Cf. Q292.1.) Q551.5.1.1
• Punishment: king and queen reborn as children of scavenger. Q551.5.1.2
• Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum. Q551.5.1.3
• Magic sickness as punishment. Q551.6
• Punishment: men stricken with leprosy. Q551.6.0.1
• Punishment: death from unknown disease before end of three days for having obtained food by force from monastery. Q551.6.0.2
• Magic sickness as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263, Q583.4.) Q551.6.1
• Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q572.3.) Q551.6.2
• Magic sickness as punishment for tanning shoes with bark from saint's tree. Q551.6.2.1
• Magic sickness as punishment for ingratitude. (Cf. Q281.) Q551.6.3
• Magic sickness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212, Q557.4, Q572.1.) Q551.6.4
• Magic sickness as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q551.6.5
• Magic manifestation: blood flows suddenly from mouth of blasphemer. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q551.6.5.1
• Magic manifestation: eyes fall out of head of blasphemer. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Q551.6.5.2
• Emaciation caused by envy. (Cf. Q302.) Q551.6.6
• Magic sickness (death) as punishment for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Q551.6.7
• Magic paralysis as punishment. Q551.7
• Magic paralysis as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q573.1, Q583.3.) Q551.7.1
• Heretic suddenly becomes tongue-tied. Q551.7.1.1
• Magic paralysis as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q551.7.2
• Magic paralysis as punishment for quarrelsomeness. (Cf. Q306.) Q551.7.3
• Deformity as punishment. Q551.8
• Deformity as punishment for false judging. (Cf. Q265.) Q551.8.1
• Deformity as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q551.8.2
• Deformity (putridity) as punishment for murder. (Cf. D2061.1.4, Q211.) Q551.8.3
• Man's eye bursts forth when he urges saint to marry. (Cf. Q227, Q451.7.0.2.) Q551.8.4
• Head falls off when man lies to saint. (Cf. Q263.) Q551.8.5
• Magic punishment: tongue protrudes from mouth of sinner and blindness follows. Q551.8.6
• Punishment: face distorted. Q551.8.7
• Miraculous burning as punishment. (Cf. Q414.) Q551.9
• Miraculous burning as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Q551.9.1
• Magic burning to death as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Q551.9.2
• Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.) Q551.10
• Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for scoffing at church teachings. (Cf. Q225.) Q551.10.1
• Magic forgetfulness as punishment. Q551.11
• Premature aging as punishment. (Cf. D1890.) Q551.12
• Prodigy as punishment. Q552
• Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets). Q552.0.1
• Death by thunderbolt as punishment. Q552.1
• Destruction of property by thunderbolt as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Q552.1.0.1
• Thunderbolt demolishes fortress as punishment for disobedience (to saint). (Cf. Q227, Q325.) Q552.1.0.1.1