Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms

Motif

Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q521.1.2

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 *Types 756BC
general **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 133
general *BP III 471 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch.

Filed beside it

Penance: crawling on knees and watering a dry staff until it blooms

Carried in tale types

Robber Madej (previously The Devil's Contract) · ATU 756B54 recorded variants
The Two Sinners (previously The Greater Sinner) · ATU 756C4 recorded variants

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