Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair — Mythoi

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Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Penances. · view the constellation · filed as Q541.5

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

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Penance: sitting in water Penance: standing in water for forty days Penance: Gregory on the stone. Standing on a stone (pillar) as penance for incest. (Cf. Q242, T415.) Penance: keeping self suspended on two iron hooks placed under armpits

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