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Q522 Self-torture as penance
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- Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.) · Q522.1 entry
- Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife · Q522.2 entry
- Penance: creeping naked through thorns · Q522.3 entry
- Penance: pilgrimage with hands and loins weighted with iron · Q522.4 entry
- Penance: iron band forged round a man's waist · Q522.5 entry
- Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff · Q522.6 entry
- Penance: wearing friar's cord about bare skin · Q522.7 entry
- Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing · Q522.8 entry