Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber

Motif

Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Impiety punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q226.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general *Crane Vitry 166 No. 72
general Kittredge Englische Studien XIX 177
general *Herbert III 60. Cf. Type 756B.

Within the index

Filed under Punishment for leaving holy orders. (Cf. Q520.5, Q551.3.4.3.)

Filed beside it

Mutinous clerics expelled in shapes of swine. (Cf. Q551.3.2.)

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