Penance: ferryman setting people over a stream until relieved by another

Motif

Penance: ferryman setting people over a stream until relieved by another.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q521.5

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 460, 461
general *Aarne FFC XXIII 138.

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: pasturing black sheep until they become white 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

Three Hairs from the Devil's Beard · ATU 4611 recorded variant

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