Priest who gives mild penances succeeds where others fail — Mythoi

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Priest who gives mild penances succeeds where others fail.

Reversal of fortune. · Triumph of the weak. · Mildness triumphs over violence. · view the constellation · filed as L361

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general Scala Celi 48a No. 272
general Alphabet No. 183
general Herbert III 505, 570

Within the index

Filed under Mildness triumphs over violence.

Filed beside it

Mildness triumphs over violence: queen advises husband to use kindness to enemies. This wins them over where war failed Saint uses kind words to pagan priest who has just smitten a Christian. This causes pagan to repent. Conversion follows 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 Mild brother triumphs over warlike. Survives him and inherits property Goldsmith gives money to one who addressed him as friend (the goldsmith had no friends because he has cheated everybody)

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