Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off

Motif

Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q521.3

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 756C
general *Andrejev FFC LIV 35.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch Penance: carrying bag of stones (one for each murder) on the back until it falls off. (Cf. Q211.)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 Two Sinners (previously The Greater Sinner) · ATU 756C2 recorded variants

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