Rewards and punishments

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• Thunder slays people for disregard of him. Q552.1.0.2
• Lightning strikes monk who despises humility. (Cf. Q331.) Q552.1.1
• Ravisher killed by thunderbolt. (Cf. Q244.) Q552.1.2
• Impostor killed by lightning. (Cf. Q262.) Q552.1.3
• Death by thunderbolt as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.1.4
• Death by thunderbolt as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q552.1.5
• Death by thunderbolt as punishment for injustice. (Cf. Q296.) Q552.1.6
• Woman who accused saint of raping her is struck by lightning. (Cf. Q263.) Q552.1.7
• Infidel defies God to strike him with lightning. God does. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q552.1.8
• Cattle thief calls on God to strike him with lightning if he has ever stolen a cow or calf. Lightning strikes him. Q552.1.8.1
• Sinking of earth as punishment. Q552.2
• Quaking of earth as punishment. (Cf. D2148.) Q552.2.0.1
• Earth quakes when saint is opposed. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.2.0.1.1
• Land sinks and lake appears as punishment. Q552.2.1
• Grave sinks so that grave-robbers cannot get out. (Cf. Q212.2.) Q552.2.2
• Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.) Q552.2.3
• Girl sinks into earth for dancing in church. (Cf. C51.1.5, Q386.) Q552.2.3.1
• Earth swallows man who opposes saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.) Q552.2.3.1.1
• Earth swallows man as punishment for sacrilege (blasphemy, heresy, etc.). (Cf. Q221.3.) Q552.2.3.1.2
• Man who angers saint sinks into earth to his knees. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.2.3.1.3
• Earth swallows object as punishment. Q552.2.3.2
• Earth swallows mill in which saint's grain was refused grinding. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.2.3.2.1
• Earth swallows heretical city. (Cf. Q225.1.) Q552.2.3.2.2
• Island sinks for man's offense to saint. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.2.3.2.3
• Saint causes parricide to sink into earth to his knees. (Cf. D1713, Q211.1.) Q552.2.3.3
• Earth swallows man intending treachery. (Cf. Q261.1.) Q552.2.3.4
• Failure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.) Q552.3
• Failure of crops as punishment for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.) Q552.3.0.1
• Failure of crops as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q552.3.0.2
• Failure of crops and milk as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q552.3.0.3
• Failure of crops for mistreating the dead. Q552.3.0.4
• Famine as punishment. Q552.3.1
• Sterility of land as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Q552.3.1.1
• Famine as punishment for oppression by victors. Q552.3.2
• Drought as punishment. Q552.3.3
• Food magically disappears. Q552.3.4
• Punishment for greed: streams of sugar, molasses, and milk from anchorite's tomb dry up and petrify because of townspeople's greed. (Cf. Q272.) Q552.3.5
• Punishment: water famine. Q552.3.6
• Murrain upon cattle as punishment. Q552.3.7
• Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.) Q552.4
• Stolen animal cries out from stomach of thief. Q552.4.1
• Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.) Q552.5
• Man who cuts off tongue of swallow has dumb children. (Cf. Q285.1.1.) Q552.5.1
• Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.) Q552.6
• Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.) Q552.7
• Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.) Q552.8
• Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.) Q552.9
• Plague as punishment. Q552.10
• Recurrent plague during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.3.) Q552.10.1
• Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Q552.11
• Punishment: shipwreck. Q552.12
• Fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. F797, F962.2.) Q552.13
• Punishment by arrows of fire from heaven. Q552.13.0.1
• Sword (of fire) from heaven drawn upon sinners. Q552.13.0.2
• Gods pour torrents of hot ashes on kingdom as punishment. Q552.13.0.3
• Death by fire from heaven as punishment. Q552.13.1
• Death by fire from heaven as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.13.1.1
• Death by fire from heaven as punishment for scoffing at church teachings. (Cf. Q225.) Q552.13.1.2
• Destruction of property by fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Q552.13.2
• City of king who opposed saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.13.2.1
• Church which refused to bury saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.13.2.2
• Fire from heaven consumes adulterous wife who has slandered an abbot. (Cf. Q227, Q414.0.3.) Q552.13.3
• Storm as punishment. (Cf. D905.) Q552.14
• Storm as punishment for affront to disguised supernatural spirit. (Cf. Q221.) Q552.14.0.1
• Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.) Q552.14.1
• Punishment: flood of mud after which crops of corn come up with black (smutted) ears. Q552.14.2
• Mass of sand advances like a tidal wave upon city. Q552.14.3
• Rain of stones as punishment. Q552.14.4
• Hail as punishment. Q552.14.5
• Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.15
• Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.) Q552.16
• Food concealed from saint miraculously changed to stones. (Cf. Q551.3.) Q552.16.1
• Fishermen cut fish into pieces and claim that they have none. Saint says, "If you have none, may you have them; if you have, may they be stones." Pieces of fish are changed to stones. (Cf. A977.5.2.) Q552.16.1.1
• Women carrying cheeses concealed pretend that they are carrying webs or balls of thread. Saint changes cheeses to stones. (Cf. A977.5.1.) Q552.16.1.2
• Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) Q552.17
• Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) Q552.18
• Gold and silver demanded of saint disappear. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.18.1
• Cowl demanded as ransom from saint bursts into flame. Q552.18.1.1
• Drink refused saint disappears. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.18.2
• Payment for ransom disappears when prisoner is not released. Q552.18.3
• Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.) Q552.19
• Drowning caused by magic wind as punishment of braggart. (Cf. D906, Q330.) Q552.19.0.1
• Miraculous drowning as punishment for opposition to saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.) Q552.19.1
• Miraculous drowning as punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q211.8.) Q552.19.2
• Miraculous drowning as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q552.19.3
• Miraculous drowning as punishment for man's flight with stepmother. (Cf. Q242.) Q552.19.4
• Miraculous drowning as punishment for haughtiness. (Cf. Q331.) Q552.19.5
• Flood as punishment for murder (fratricide). (Cf. Q211.) Q552.19.6
• Eclipse as punishment. Q552.20
• Miraculous darkness as punishment. Q552.20.1
• Man vomits heart as punishment and lives without it till his death. Q552.21
• Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice. Q552.22
• Punishment: being suspended between heaven and earth. Q552.23
• Punishment: lava flow. Q552.24
• Earthquake as punishment. Q552.25
• Earthquake at dragon's death. Q552.25.1
• Earthquake at witch's death. Q552.25.2
• Divine favor withdrawn as punishment. Q553
• Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Q553.1
• Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit. Q553.2
• Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) Q553.3
• Sterility of women as punishment. Q553.3.0.1
• God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) Q553.3.1
• Children of incestuous father die without issue. (Cf. Q242.) Q553.3.2
• Sterility as punishment for breaking saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Q553.3.3
• Sterility as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Q553.3.4
• Sterility as punishment for uncharitableness to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1.) Q553.3.5
• Painful birth of children as punishment. Q553.3.6
• Punishment: reduced number of children. Q553.3.7
• Death of children as punishment. Q553.4
• Child taken from parents because they have ceased to think of God. (Cf. Q223.1.) Q553.4.1
• Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q553.5
• Failure in all efforts as punishment. Q553.6
• Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.) Q553.7
• Mysterious visitation as punishment. Q554
• Punishment: devil carries off thief. (Cf. Q212.) Q554.1
• Devil in roof of church into which he thrusts voices of loud singers. (Cf. Q223.) Q554.2
• Mysterious stranger blows ashes into face of scoffer and chokes him to death. (Cf. Q225.) Q554.3
• Mysterious wolf enters church and kills blaspheming priest. (Cf. Q225.) Q554.4
• Mysterious animal punishes penitent. Returning from the pope he is met by a mysterious animal who jumps on his back. Then in the man's room, whither he has carried the animal, a three hours' noise is heard as of a fight. Neither man nor beast is found in the room. (Cf. Q557.) Q554.5
• Cheaters visited by god in animal form. Frightened into restitution. Q554.6
• Creditor in former existence comes to confiscate riches of unkind man in next existence. (Cf. Q281.) Q554.7
• Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.) Q555
• Madness as punishment for scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Q555.1
• Madness as punishment for adulterer. (Cf. Q241.) Q555.2
• Madness as punishment for thieves. (Cf. Q212.) Q555.3
• Punishment for incest: father and son maddened; cut off their sexual organs. Q555.4
• Curse as punishment. Q556
• Curse threatened to enforce demand. Q556.0.1
• Voice from heaven pronounces curse of destruction on city. Q556.0.2
• Curse for participation in Crucifixion. (Cf. Q221.2.) Q556.1
• Mark of Cain. Permanent mark as curse on a murderer. (Cf. Q211.) Q556.2
• Curse for leaving home. Q556.3
• Man has color of the dead as result of saint's curse for disobedience. (Cf. Q227.) Q556.4
• Child born with one eye blinded as result of saint's curse. Q556.4.1
• Saint decrees offenders will not be able to fortify their dwellings. Fences fall, earth gapes when dug. (Cf. D2192, Q227, Q552.) Q556.5
• Curse for plundering church: king loses battles. (Cf. Q222.) Q556.6
• Curse for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Q556.7
• Curse for enforced hospitality. Q556.7.1
• Curse for mockery. (Cf. Q288.) Q556.8
• Curse for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q248.) Q556.9
• Curse for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q556.10
• Saint curses murderer with shortness of life here and hell beyond. Q556.10.1
• Curse for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.1.) Q556.11
• Curse for stealing. (Cf. Q212.) Q556.12
• Thievish abbot to be eaten by wolves: curse by saint. Q556.12.1
• Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.) Q557
• Poisonous toad sits on food of undutiful children. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q557.1
• Serpent chokes woman's undutiful son. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q557.2
• Eagle (ape) carries off ill-gotten gain. Makes away with the receipts of a merchant who had watered his wine. (Cf. Q274.) Q557.3
• Mouse causes hair of thief to fall out. (Cf. Q551.6.4.) Q557.4
• Saint's pet crane pecks out eye of spying person. (Cf. Q342, Q580.) Q557.5
• Snake strikes person for opposing saint. (Cf. Q227.) Q557.6
• Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) Q557.7
• People given charm to dispel flies grumble: flies return a thousandfold. (Cf. Q312.) Q557.8
• Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.) Q558
• Scoffing priest mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q225.) Q558.1
• Perjurer stricken dead. (Cf. Q263.) Q558.2
• Usurer flees city to escape plague. On his return he boasts that God did not get him. He takes the plague and dies. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q558.3
• Blasphemer stricken dead. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q558.4
• Man in anger throws stone at the image of the Virgin. Is stricken dead. (Cf. Q222.) Q558.5
• Mysterious death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q558.6
• Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Q558.7
• Mysterious death as punishment for wrongful satire. (Cf. Q265.2.) Q558.8
• Mysterious death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q558.9
• Mysterious death of son as punishment for murder. Q558.9.1
• Mysterious death as punishment for feigning sleep. (Cf. Q260.) Q558.10
• Animals which eat of saint's body stricken dead. (Cf. B275.3, Q220.) Q558.11
• Mysterious death as punishment for worshiping idols on All-Saints-Day. Q558.12
• Mysterious death as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q574.1.) Q558.13
• Mysterious death of son as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Q558.13.1
• Mysterious death as punishment for disbelief in druidism. Q558.13.2
• Mysterious death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q558.14
• Animals stricken dead for desecration of holy places. (Cf. D2089.3.) Q558.14.1
• Mysterious death as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263.) Q558.15
• Mysterious death of son as punishment for lying (perjury). Q558.15.1
• Mysterious death as punishment for false judging. Q558.16
• Death by ulcer for destroying churches. (Cf. Q222.) Q558.17
• Saints bring about miraculous death because of desecration of sanctuaries. (Cf. C51.1, Q222, V220.) Q558.18
• Other miraculous punishments. Q559
• Devils instead of angels visit woman who has forgotten God in her prosperity. Q559.1
• Punishment: man stricken blind. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Q559.2
• Body of murdered man cannot be moved nor can water be drawn from a well to wash it. Leads to exposure of murderer. Q559.3
• Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) Q559.4
• Girl punished for jeering at saint. Is stricken dumb and distaff sticks to her hand. (Cf. Q227.) Q559.5
• Birth of child prevented until girl confesses slander. She has accused a bishop of fathering the child. Q559.5.1
• Girl's hand withers as punishment for broken oath to God. Q559.5.2
• Poets lose ability to compose verse as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Q559.6
• Punishment: body will not decay after death because man broke saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Q559.7
• Half of house in which false judgment is given slips down hill. (Cf. Q265.) Q559.8
• Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) Q559.9
• Magic boat keeps thief at sea until he promises to throw ill-gotten gains into sea. (Cf. D1654.6, Q212.) Q559.10
• Man miraculously made to excrete his entrails for heresy. (Cf. Q225.1, Q469.7.) Q559.11
• Punishments in hell. (Cf. Q174.) Q560
• Punishments in land of dead (detailed). Q560.1
• Punishments in other world: people reincarnated as buffaloes and killed. Q560.1.1
• Respite from hell. Q560.2
• Souls in hell not punished on Sabbath. Q560.2.1
• Three hours of respite on Sunday for tormented in hell. Q560.2.1.1
• Certain number of souls released from hell every Saturday through virtue of saint. Q560.2.2