μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q535.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general Chauvin II 105 No. 68
  • general Bødker Exempler 302 No. 71
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Filed under Negative penances.

Filed beside it
Penance: not to speakRefraining from sexual intercourse as penance. (Cf. C110.)Lone fasting as penance

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