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Motif

The Wandering Jew. Ceaseless wandering with inability to die as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q502.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 778*
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV No. 754*.
  • general Type 754**
  • general **L. Neubaur Die Sage vom Ewigen Jude 2d ed. (Leipzig, 1893)
  • general **Zirus Ahasverus, der Ewige Jude (Stoff- und Motivgeschichte der deutschen Literatur No. 6 [Berlin, 1930])
  • general Gielen de Wandelende Jood (Amsterdam, 1931)
  • general *K. Nyrop Den evige Jøde (København, 1907)
  • general **Neubaur Zs. f. Vksk. XXII 33, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen XXVIII 495ff.
  • general *Dübe Zs. F. Vksk. XVII 143
  • general *Bolte ibid. XIX 308
  • general G. Paris. Légendes du moyen âge 2d ed. (1904) 149ff.
  • general *Fb "Jerusalems skomager" II 40, IV 246a
  • general *Wehrhan 50
  • general Taylor MLN XXXIII 394ff.

…and 3 more.

Within the index

Filed under Wandering as a punishment.

Filed beside it
Punishment: wandering till iron shoes are worn out Tribe's long wandering in wilderness as punishment
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Blasphemy punished. (Cf. Q551.1.8, Q558.4.)
Carried in tale types

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