Penance: creeping naked through thorns — Mythoi

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Penance: creeping naked through thorns.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q522.3

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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IrishO'Suilleabhain 44, Beal XXI 316
Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general *Type 756B
general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 202a

Within the index

Filed under Self-torture as penance.

Filed beside it

Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.)Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife Penance: pilgrimage with hands and loins weighted with iron Penance: iron band forged round a man's waist Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff Penance: wearing friar's cord about bare skin Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing