Penance: not to speak — Mythoi

Motif

Penance: not to speak.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q535.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 6 (2) 6.— THE THREE GREEN TWIGS.
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CXVII
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 4, Canto 42
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 1, Canto 34
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 3, Canto 13

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 136 (Sir Gowther)
Spanish Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 756B, Keller.
general *Krappe Balor 181ff.
general *Toldo II 91
general *Dickson 255 nn. 76, 77

Within the index

Filed under Negative penances.

Filed beside it

Penance: lioness foregoes meat. Her two cubs are killed. The jackal tells her that he has had the same experience. She gives up eating meat and lives on grass Refraining from sexual intercourse as penance. (Cf. C110.) Lone fasting as penance

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