Penance: pasturing black sheep until they become white — Mythoi

Motif

Penance: pasturing black sheep until they become white.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q521.4

Cited in the index

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: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off 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 756C 4 recorded variants

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