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Motif

Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q521.6

Filed across the traditions
  • Ireland Baughman, O'Suilleabhain 27, Beal XXI 308
  • Spanish Espinosa II Nos. 70f.
  • general *Sébillot RTP X 584, XIII 179, XV 621
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: ferryman setting people over a stream until relieved by another Penance to be done until seven spires of Benares are reduced to powder and rebuilt
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.)

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