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Reward: admission to heaven.

Rewards and punishments. · Nature of rewards. · Religious rewards. · view the constellation · filed as Q172

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Religious rewards.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Fairy minstrel asks admission to heaven as reward for playing for saint. (Cf. F262.3.) Rewards in heaven Child taken to heaven: offers food to crucifix Man admitted to heaven for single act of charity Man admitted to heaven as reward for penance. (Cf. Q520.) Palace being built in heaven for pious king Numerous sinners to go to heaven as reward for man's writing hymn. (Cf. Q35.) Heaven as reward for renouncement of long life Man admitted to heaven for remitting tribute. (Cf. Q42.7.) Mother of saint admitted to heaven Deification as reward
Filed beside it
Immunity from punishment for sin as reward Saint made judge of doom for men of Ireland (as reward) Reward: release from hell Reward: holy person to be buried and resurrected in one place God gives "peace and favorable weather" in consequence of enactment of good law. (Cf. Q153.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
St. Peter's mother dropped from heaven because of hardheartedness. She is permitted to go to heaven on a stalk, but is weighted down by people holding to her skirts. She shakes them off. (Cf. Q172.) Saint gives a man all his credit for good deeds so that the man may go to heaven. Saint is then rewarded with even greater credit. (Cf. Q172.)

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