Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch — Mythoi

Motif

Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q521.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish O'Suilleabhain 49
Spanish Espinosa II Nos. 79f., Espinosa Jr. No. 186
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 143.
general *Types 756ABC
general *BP III 463
general **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 126, 129ff., 241ff.

Within the index

Filed under Tedious penances. (Cf. H1110, Q500.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Penance: carrying bag of stones (one for each murder) on the back until it falls off. (Cf. Q211.) Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off Penance: pasturing black sheep until they become white Penance: ferryman setting people over a stream until relieved by another Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses Penance to be done until seven spires of Benares are reduced to powder and rebuilt

Carried in tale types

The Self-Righteous Hermit · ATU 756A 1 recorded variant

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