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L361 Priest who gives mild penances succeeds where others fail
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- Mildness triumphs over violence: queen advises husband to use kindness to enemies. This wins them over where war failed · L350.1 entry
- Saint uses kind words to pagan priest who has just smitten a Christian. This causes pagan to repent. Conversion follows · L350.2 entry
- Contest of wind and sun. Sun by warmth causes traveler to remove coat, while wind by violent blowing causes him to pull it closer around him · L351 entry
- Mild brother triumphs over warlike. Survives him and inherits property · L353 entry
- Goldsmith gives money to one who addressed him as friend (the goldsmith had no friends because he has cheated everybody) · L363 entry