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Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q473.5.1

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Filed under Punishment: sending out of town on donkeys.

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Riding backwards on donkey as punishment

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