Penance: crawling to Rome on knees — Mythoi

Motif

Penance: crawling to Rome on knees.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q523.1

Cited in the index

general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127.

Within the index

Filed under Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Penance: crawling to grave on knees

Filed beside it

Penance: walking on all-fours like beast Penance: eating food offered to dogs Penance: living under stairs as mendicant Penance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.) Penance: slain cats, dogs, etc. to be hung up and covered with grain by man who has killed them Penance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.) Penance: performing all services asked for by anyone Penance: king to take off crown and lick spittle from ground Penance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes

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