The constellation
V29 Confession – miscellaneous motifs
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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The same sky, in words
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- Confession of sins · V20 entry
beneath it
- Search for confessor. Great sinner sent from one confessor to another. All say that his sins are too great for forgiveness. Finally he succeeds · V29.1 entry
- Monks shrive selves clean under threat of complete exposure of their sins by brother possessed of fiend · V29.2 entry
- Miracle attests fact that man does not need to confess. He hangs his sack on a sunbeam · V29.3 entry
- Sodomist makes sport of confession · V29.4 entry
- Unnecessary for husband to confess as his wife has already done it for him · V29.5 entry
- Penitent brings manuscript of sins to confession · V29.6 entry
- Confessor and penitent exchange confidences. Balance sins and cancel wrongs · V29.7 entry
- The devil goes to confession. Performs very severe penance, but cannot bear to humble himself and to stoop before the altar. (Cf. G303.16.9.) · V29.8 entry
- Extortionate confessor demands golden statue · V29.9 entry