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Penance: Gregory on the stone. Standing on a stone (pillar) as penance for incest. (Cf. Q242, T415.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q541.3

Cited in the index
  • general *Type 933
  • general Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 173 to Gonzenbach No. 85
  • general *Baum PMLA XXXI 562 n. 59
  • general *Toldo II 89.
Within the index

Filed under Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance.

Filed beside it
Penance: sitting in water Penance: standing in water for forty days Penance: keeping self suspended on two iron hooks placed under armpits Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Incest punished. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q421.0.6, Q431.8.1, Q451.4.3, Q451.7.3, Q520.3, Q541.3, Q552.19.4.) Brother-sister incest
Carried in tale types

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