Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death

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Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Impiety punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q220.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Italian NovellaRotunda.

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Filed under Devil plagues impious people.

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Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.)

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