Motif
Antagonist pronounces her own punishment
antagonist_pronounces_her_own_punishment
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
slavic
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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars THE POOR MAN, AND THE KING OF THE CROWS. / THE USELESS WAGONER. / MIRKO, THE KING'S SON. / THE REED MAIDEN.; lines 13542-13654 confidence: high
The king's son assembles nobles and benefactors, takes the Reed Maiden's hand, asks what a person who separates a couple deserves, and applies to the queen her own proposed punishment of a spiked cask rolled from the highest mountain.
The queen names the punishment for the person who separates a couple, and the king's son declares that she has pronounced her own sentence.
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