Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.)

Motif

Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q503.1

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.

general Köhler-Bolte I 406.

Within the index

Filed under Wandering after death as punishment.

Travels with

Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.)

wander