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Motifs
- Unconfessed person cannot rest in grave. E411.0.2.2
- Ghost laid when crime has been confessed. (Cf. E412.5.) E451.1
- The devil has two books – one book small for sins of clerics, erased by confession; the other large for unconfessed sins of lay folks. G303.24.1.9
- Recognition when parents come to son (priest, pope) to be confessed. H151.3
- Cheaters examined apart; first made to repeat paternoster. Others think that he has confessed and truth is discovered. J1141.3
- Priest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague. J1563.8
- Complacent judge disregards the confession. He has put the criminal to torture without success. When he releases him, the criminal says, "In a moment I should have confessed all." The judge lets him go nevertheless. P521
- Prior pardons sinning friar who has confessed. V21.4