Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing — Mythoi

Motif

Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q522.8

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.

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: creeping naked through thorns 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

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