ATU 756C The Two Sinners (previously The Greater Sinner)

ATU 756C

The Two Sinners (previously The Greater Sinner)

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Parricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.) 4 variants
Murderer does penance. (Cf. Q171.1.1, Q211.) 4 variants
Penance: crawling on knees and watering a dry staff until it blooms. 4 variants
Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms. 4 variants
Penance: pasturing black sheep until they become white. 4 variants
Penance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.) 4 variants
Murderer's penance complete when he kills a greater murderer and prevents a crime. (Cf. Q211.) 4 variants
Search for confessor. Great sinner sent from one confessor to another. All say that his sins are too great for forgiveness. Finally he succeeds. 4 variants
Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. 2 variants
Punishment for desecration of host. 2 variants
Penance: carrying bag of stones (one for each murder) on the back until it falls off. (Cf. Q211.) 2 variants
Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off. 2 variants

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.