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Motifs — first 20 of 88
- Origin of penance for sin. A1549.4
- Fox fasts as penance. (Cf. B251.4.) B253.3
- Spider performs penance. B253.4
- Return from dead to do penance. E411.0.2.1
- Ghost laid when penance is done. (Cf. E411.0.2.1.) E451.2
- Condemned soul saved by penance. (Cf. Q520.) E754.1.3
- Journey to otherworld as penance. F5
- Devils appear to knight to try to call him from doing penance. G303.9.4.5
- True penance for even a day is effective. J557.1.1
- Literal penance: boy outwits pope. For three years not to drink wine, not to lie in bed, nor sleep with a prostitute. He goes to a convent, sleeps on eider down, and sleeps with the nuns. (God's daughters). When the pope condemns him he says he will go to his brother-in-law (Christ: he has wedded God's daughters). (Cf. J1764.5.) J1161.5
- Confession made easy. Peasant sees priest at work in the fields. Tells him he wishes to confess. He is told to put money in the box and take the same penance as the year before. J1263.7
- Imagined penance for imagined sin. A penitent confesses that a plan to sin had entered his mind. Priest tells him that the thought is as good as the deed. Assesses four florins as penance. Penitent says that he had only had it in his mind to give the florins; he must take the thought for the deed. J1551.2
- Robber gives priest double his penance and then takes his horse. J1635
- Penance of priest saves him from devil. The priest, who sold his soul to the devil, orders his servant to cut him (alive) up into pieces, to crucify him on a tree (and the like), thus saves his soul from the devils. K218.6
- Husband duped into doing penance while rascal enjoys the wife. K1514.2
- Priest who gives mild penances succeeds where others fail. L361
- Self-righteous hermit must do penance. He has said of a condemned man that he deserves his punishment. L435.1
- Wife undertakes man's penances for him: also to go to heaven for him? He has a dream and when he sees that she also goes to heaven for him he decides against the bargain. M292
- Man admitted to heaven as reward for penance. (Cf. Q520.) Q172.3
- Failure to do penance punished. Monk fails and becomes ill. Q223.8