Motif
theft punished by death
theft_punished_by_death
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 3004-3116 confidence: high
Deegenboyah sees his dead wives, pleads that he stole emus for his hungry family, and Mullyangah rejects the plea and spears him.
Deegenboyah admits stealing emus and is killed by Mullyangah, who declares that no one steals twice from a Mullyan.
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