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

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

Cited in the index

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 461 1 recorded variant

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