Confession of sins — Mythoi

Motif

Confession of sins.

Religion. · Religious services. · Confession of sins. · view the constellation · filed as V20

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LV LV. The Transference of Evil
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LVI LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XIX XIX. Tabooed Acts
Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , First Part, Scene 7 (A Street)
Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter CXXV (2)

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman
Tahiti Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 143.
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 133b
general *De Vooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen (Den Haag, 1926) 241ff.
general *R. Pettazzoni La confessione dei peccati (Bologna, 1929)

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Protection of sinners by confession Confession brings forgiveness of sin Condemnation because of death without confession. (Cf. Q223.4.) Miracle to permit confession Miraculous manifestation at confession Easy confession not effective Penance magically concluded by confession Confession – miscellaneous motifs

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Animals confess sins to one another: fox and wolf forgive each other; punish ass. (Cf. V20.)

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