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V0--V99 Religious services.
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V1. Objects of worship.
V1.1. Worship of particular gods and goddesses.
V1.1.1. Worship of one god.
V1.2. Worship of spirits.
V1.2.1. Worship of fairies.
V1.2.2. Worship of devil.
V1.2.3. Worship of "disar".
V1.2.4. Worship of angels.
V1.3. Worship of ancestors.
V1.4. Worship of heavenly bodies.
V1.4.1. Worship of the sky. (Cf. A210.)
V1.4.2. Worship of the sun. (Cf. A220.)
V1.4.3. Worship of moon. (Cf. A240.)
V1.4.4. Worship of stars. (Cf. A250.)
V1.5. Worship of manifestations in nature.
V1.5.1. Worship of clouds. (Cf. A283.)
V1.5.2. Worship of thunder. (Cf. A284.)
V1.5.3. Worship of wind. (Cf. A282.)
V1.5.4. Worship of storm. (Cf. A281.)
V1.5.5. Worship of dawn. (Cf. A270.)
V1.5.6. Worship of light. (Cf. A260.)
V1.5.6.1. Worship of rainbow. (Cf. A288.)
V1.5.7. Worship of frost. (Cf. A289.1.)
V1.6. Worship of elements of nature.
V1.6.1. Worship of earth. (Cf. A400.)
V1.6.1.1. Worship of mountains and hills. (Cf. A495.)
V1.6.2. Worship of water. (Cf. A420.)
V1.6.2.0.1. Worship of water-goddess.
V1.6.2.1. Sacred rivers and lakes. (Cf. A425.)
V1.6.2.2. Worship of sea. (Cf. A421.)
V1.6.3. Worship of fire. (Cf. A493.)
V1.6.3.1. Sacred fire.
V1.6.3.1.1. (Sacrificial) fire from which all others must be lighted.
V1.6.4. Worship of minerals and metals. (Cf. A492.)
V1.6.4.1. Sacred stones.
V1.6.4.2. Sacred shells.
V1.7. Worship of trees and plants. (Cf. A430, C51.2.2.)
V1.7.1. Sacred tree.
V1.7.1.1. Sacred oak.
V1.7.1.2. Sacred ash.
V1.7.1.3. Sacred yew.
V1.7.1.4. Sacred bo-tree.
V1.8. Worship of animals.
V1.8. Worship of animals.
V1.8.1. Cow worship.
V1.8.1.1. Bull worship.
V1.8.2. Horse worship.
V1.8.3. Dog worship.
V1.8.4. Swine worship.
V1.8.5. Wolf worship.
V1.8.6. Serpent worship.
V1.8.7. Bird worship. (Cf. A132.6.1.)
V1.8.8. Dragon worship.
V1.8.9. Lion worship.
V1.8.10. Ass worship.
V1.8.11. Fish worship.
V1.9. Worship of tools and implements.
V1.9.1. Plow worship. (Cf. A432.)
V1.9.2. Worship of weapons.
V1.9.3. Worship of hammer (axe).
V1.10. Worship of fetish. (Cf. A432.)
V1.10.1. Man worships a cake which from time to time he eats.
V1.10.2. Cult of heads.
V1.10.3. Sacred feather.
V1.11. Worship of idols. (Cf. Q558.12, V11.10.)
V1.11.1. Worship of golden calf.
V1.11.2. Worship of stone idols.
V1.11.3. Worship of wooden idol.
V4. Value of religious exercises.
V4.1. Religious exercises weighed in balance. ---- A son doubts whether the words spoken by the priests to whom his father has willed a sum of money is worth so much. The words are put on paper and are found to outweigh the money.
V5. Negligence in religious exercise. (Cf. Q223.)
V5.1. Virgin Mary reproves a monk who sleeps at altar.
V5.2. Negligent priests buried under bags filled with words omitted from service.
V5.3. Devils cause monk to perspire and stay away from church service.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10. Religious sacrifices.
V10.1. Goddess prevents suicide of man despairing of ability to make sacrifice.
V10.2. God dislikes offerings beyond one's ability.
V11. Power to which sacrifice is made.
V11.1. Sacrifice to tree. (Cf. V1.1.)
V11.2. Sacrifice to sea.
V11.2.1. Sacrifice to river.
V11.3. Sacrifice to stone.
V11.4. Sacrifices to Confucius.
V11.5. Sacrifice to wind.
V11.6. Sacrifice to the dead. (Cf. A108.1.)
V11.6.1. Human sacrifice in connection with funeral. (Cf. S260.1.)
V11.6.2. Animal sacrifice in connection with funeral.
V11.7. Sacrifice to animal.
V11.7.1. Sacrifice to serpent.
V11.8. Sacrifice to saint.
V11.9. Sacrifice to deity.
V11.9.1. Sacrifice to unknown god.
V11.10. Sacrifice to idols. (Cf. V1.11.)
V12. Nature of sacrifice.
V12.1. Blood as sacrifice.
V12.2. Jewels as sacrifice to sea. (Cf. V11.2.)
V12.3. Skulls as sacrifice to a god.
V12.4. Animals as sacrifice.
V12.4. Animals as sacrifice.
V12.4.0.1. Sacrifice of animals at the edification of a temple.
V12.4.1. Dog as sacrifice.
V12.4.2. Cat as sacrifice.
V12.4.3. Pig as sacrifice.
V12.4.3.1. Hog as sacrifice.
V12.4.4. Ox (bull) as sacrifice.
V12.4.4.1. Cow as sacrifice.
V12.4.4.1.1. Heifer as sacrifice.
V12.4.4.2. Calf as sacrifice.
V12.4.5. Goat as sacrifice.
V12.4.6. Sheep (ram) as sacrifice.
V12.4.7. Hare as sacrifice.
V12.4.8. Ass as sacrifice.
V12.4.9. Horse as sacrifice.
V12.4.10. Fish as sacrifice.
V12.4.11. Bird as sacrifice.
V12.5. Gold as sacrifice to false wooden god.
V12.6. Thrall as sacrifice.
V12.7. Eyes (human or animal) as sacrifice.
V12.8. Flowers as sacrifice.
V12.9. Libations. ---- Drink poured out to the gods.
V12.10. Incense as sacrifice.
V13. Sacrifice made when treasure is found.
V14. Sacrifice must be without blemish.
V15. Sacrifice: olive branch laid on altar of Mercy.
V16. Sacrifice at religious festivals.
V16.1. Sacrifices at Passover.
V17. Purpose of sacrifice.
V17.0.1. Sacrifice to deity in order to obtain favors.
V17.1. Sacrifice for a good year, crops.
V17.2. Sacrifice after committing a sin.
V17.3. Sacrifice to get help in danger.
V17.4. Sacrifice for good weather. (Cf. V17.1.)
V17.4.1. Sacrifice to get snow and good conditions for skiing.
V17.5. Sacrifice to get knowledge.
V17.5.1. Sacrifice to find out where abducted daughter is.
V17.6. Sacrifice in order that king may live 300 years. (Cf. F571.7.)
V17.7. Sacrifice to deity for return of abducted persons.
V17.8. Sacrifice at edification of temple. (Cf. V12.4.0.1.)
V17.9. Sacrifice by women at childbirth.
V18. Ceremony of sacrifice.
V19. Religious sacrifices -- miscellaneous.
V19.1. Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20. Confession of sins.
V20.1. Protection of sinners by confession.
V20.1.1. A man without a confessor is a body without a head.
V20.1.2. Confessor as "soul-friend".
V21. Confession brings forgiveness of sin.
V21.1. Sincere confession miraculously obliterated as sign of forgiveness.
V21.2. Woman confesses murder: unharmed by execution fire.
V21.3. Confession of monk who intended to rob monastery brings forgiveness. Eventually elected prior.
V21.4. Prior pardons sinning friar who has confessed.
V21.5. Sinner confesses before sinning and thus is pardoned.
V21.6. Sinner's tearmarks on written confession cause bishop to pardon his sins.
V22. Condemnation because of death without confession. (Cf. Q223.4.)
V23. Miracle to permit confession.
V23.1. Unshriven man restored to life in order to confess. (Cf. V251.)
V23.2. Dumb man recovers speech in order to confess.
V24. Miraculous manifestation at confession.
V24.1. Confession of sins of a pilgrim calms a great storm at sea.
V25. Easy confession not effective.
V25.1. Man returns from dead to protest against priest who has been too easy with him at confession.
V25.2. Confession without giving up sin punished.
V27. Penance magically concluded by confession. Type 756B.
V29. Confession -- miscellaneous motifs.
V29.1. Search for confessor. ---- Great sinner sent from one confessor to another. All say that his sins are too great for forgiveness. Finally he succeeds. *Type 756C.
V29.2. Monks shrive selves clean under threat of complete exposure of their sins by brother possessed of fiend.
V29.3. Miracle attests fact that man does not need to confess. ---- He hangs his sack on a sunbeam.
V29.3. Miracle attests fact that man does not need to confess. ---- He hangs his sack on a sunbeam.
V29.4. Sodomist makes sport of confession.
V29.5. Unnecessary for husband to confess as his wife has already done it for him.
V29.6.1. List of sins: schedule is returned miraculously cleansed of all his sins.
V29.7. Confessor and penitent exchange confidences. ---- Balance sins and cancel wrongs.
V29.8. The devil goes to confession. ---- Performs very severe penance, but cannot bear to humble himself and to stoop before the altar. (Cf. G303.16.9.)
V29.9. Extortionate confessor demands golden statue.
V30. Sacrament.
V30. Sacrament.
V30. Sacrament.
V30. Sacrament.
V30. Sacrament.
V30.1. The eaten god.
V30.1.1. Flesh of Artemis eaten as quail or bear.
V31. Unconsecrated host.
V31.1. Host taken away from sinful priest.
V31.2. Unconsecrated host ineffective.
V31.3. Unconsecrated host refuse.
V31.4. Altar casts away host with louse baked in it.
V31.5. Devil eats unblessed bread.
V32. Host miraculously given when it is refused a man by the priest.
V33. Incredulity as to sacredness of host punished.
V33.1. Incredulity as to sacredness of host confounded by miraculous appearance.
V33.1.1. Incredulity of true transformation of host banished by actual appearance of Jesus's body and blood.
V34. Miraculous working of the host.
V34. Miraculous working of the host.
V34.1. Host cures disease.
V34.2. Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. *Type 613.
V34.2. Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. *Type 613.
V34.2. Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. *Type 613.
V34.3. Man who has received sacrament overcomes enemy, a blasphemer.
V34.4. Clothes of knight who kneels in mud before host as it passes miraculously kept clean.
V35. The stolen sacrament.
V35.1. Jews bribe woman to steal host for them: miraculous manifestations.
V35.1.1. Horse kneels before stolen sacrament.
V35.1.2. Sacred image miraculously appears on stolen sacrament. (Cf. V39.5.)
V35.2. Stolen sacred hosts put into coffin. ---- Before death, a woman asks to put a bag into coffin. It is filled with hosts. (Cf. C55, D1031.1.1.)
V39. Sacrament -- miscellaneous motifs.
V39.1. Man considering self unworthy to receive host given it by God himself.
V39.2. Wicked woman unable to endure presence of host at mass.
V39.3. Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. ---- Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm.
V39.4. Vision of sacrament in form of young child.
V39.5. Sacred image appears on host. ---- Woman who has vowed not to use make-up or ornaments thus rewarded. (Cf. V35.1.2.)
V39.6. Host given as pledge to keep one's word.
V39.7. Voice from grave asks that it be opened. ---- Corpse spits out host because he has missed confession.
V39.8. Sick men die and go to hell because they hesitate to take sacrament.
V39.9. Woman who eats before communion cannot swallow the wafer.
V40. Mass.
V40. Mass.
V40. Mass.
V40. Mass.
V40. Mass.
V41. Masses work miracles.
V41.1. Imprisoned miner kept alive by masses performed by his wife.
V41.2. Hearing masses causes triumph in tournament. ---- Angel takes absent knight's place. He is delayed by going to mass.
V42. Masses release souls from hell (purgatory).
V43. Holy man has his own mass. (Cf. F1011.1, V29.3.)
V44. Faithful attendance at mass outweighs evil deeds.
V45. Mass said for dead; they arise and say "Amen".
V46. Pebble put in box each time mass is heard.
V48. The canonical hours.
V49. Mass -- miscellaneous motifs.
V49.1. Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.)
V49.2. Angel holds mass in church on the day that the king absents himself for sake of hunting trip.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V50. Prayer.
V51. Learning to pray.
V51.1. Man who does not know how to pray so holy that he walks on water.
V51.2. Worldly-minded learn to pray by thinking of their usual business.
V51.3. Woman shows that the Lord's Prayer is the best.
V51.4. Woman taught that it is better to pray before Christ's image than before a saint's.
V51.5. "Beatus" best prayer for saving condemned souls. (Cf. E754.1.1.)
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52.1. Man saved from lechery through prayer.
V52.2. Continuous prayer sustains man through frightful vigil. *Type 307.
V52.2. Continuous prayer sustains man through frightful vigil. *Type 307.
V52.3. Prayer before battle brings victory.
V52.4. Objects supplied through prayer.
V52.5. Prayer restores shattered vessel.
V52.6. Mariners saved from maelstrom through prayer.
V52.7. Prayer at saint's flagstone averts trouble.
V52.8. Prayer brings death to enemy.
V52.9. Prayer for protection on journey to land of dead.
V52.10. Prayers of devout woman free husband from death and imprisonment.
V52.11. Prayer of sinner changes his color from black into white.
V52.12. The clever brothers work, the foolish brother only prays; ---- finally he acquires all the property.
V52.13. Saint's Paternoster outweighs ox.
V52.14. Reciting martyrology will prevent decomposition of body of one who recites it.
V52.15. Prayer said by saint into his right hand restores displaced eye of opponent.
V52.15. Prayer said by saint into his right hand restores displaced eye of opponent.
V52.15. Prayer said by saint into his right hand restores displaced eye of opponent.
V52.15. Prayer said by saint into his right hand restores displaced eye of opponent.
V53. Prayers of family comfort prisoner.
V53.1. Prayer unfastens boy's fetters. (Cf. R211.)
V55. Man worships devil's image in order to secure advancement.
V57. Purpose of prayer.
V57.1. Prayer for good harvest.
V57.2. Prayer for shower of gold.
V57.3. Prayer on special occasions.
V58. Prayer as ceremony.
V58.1. Prayers at sunrise and sunset.
V58.2. Prayer with face toward east.
V58.3. Repeated circumambulations with prayer.
V58.4. Handwashing before prayer.
V58.5. Prayer shawl.
V59. Prayers answered -- miscellaneous.
V59.1. Skill in theft granted as answer to prayer.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60. Funeral rites.
V60.1. Stones sold at funeral wakes.
V60.2. Funeral rites by druids.
V61. Various ways of disposing of dead.
V61.1. Dead placed on boat.
V61.2. Dead burned on pyre. ---- (Cremation.)
V61.2. Dead burned on pyre. ---- (Cremation.)
V61.2. Dead burned on pyre. ---- (Cremation.)
V61.2. Dead burned on pyre. ---- (Cremation.)
V61.3. Coffin buried upright.
V61.3.0.1. Hero buried in armor, standing with face toward land of enemies. (Cf. V67.)
V61.3.0.2. Person buried in standing position with friends about him.
V61.3.0.3. Man buried upright beneath kitchen stairway in order that he may watch his family.
V61.4. Head buried one place, body another.
V61.4.1. Corpse buried face down. (Cf. S139.2.2.3.1.)
V61.4.2. Dismemberment before burial.
V61.5. King buried in his war car.
V61.6. Christian buried in stone coffin.
V61.7. Christian buried in wooden coffin.
V61.8. Burial in grave-mound.
V61.8.1. Chiefs buried in hidden caves.
V61.9. Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters.
V61.10. Corpses exposed in tree.
V61.11. Aversion to burial in "strange city".
V62. Restriction son burial.
V62.1. Funeral rites forbidden.
V62.1. Funeral rites forbidden.
V62.2. Only usurers to carry body of usurer to grave.
V63. Bones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30. Type 720.)
V64. Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial.
V64.1. Shipwrecked each get a piece of the chief's gold ring in order to have gold with them in death.
V65. Commemoration of death.
V65.1. Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death.
V65.2. Drinking festival in memory of the dead.
V65.3. Wedding and funeral festival on same time.
V65.4. Professional mourning.
V65.4.1. Funeral song sung over dead.
V65.5. Funeral games.
V66. Funeral sermon.
V66.1. Witty funeral sermon. ---- Priest having nothing good to say about man damns him with faint praise or gives anecdotes with unfavorable implications. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1.)
V67. Accompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.)
V67.1. Ornaments (arms, chariots) buried with hero.
V67.2. Shoes buried with the dead.
V67.3. Treasure buried with the dead.
V67.3.1. King buried with immense treasure in the ground of an artificially dried river; ---- later the normal course of the river is restored.
V67.4. Men buried with dead chief.
V67.4.1. Captain buried with his crew.
V67.5. Animals buried with the dead.
V68. Preparations for burial.
V68.1. Dead washed (in river).
V68.2. Dead washed and hair combed.
V68.3. Dying hero wants to be buried in the clothes of his brother who killed him.
V68.4. Dead is undressed.
V68.4.1. Dead not to be buried naked.
V68.5. Dead rubbed with red paint.
V69. Funeral rites -- miscellaneous.
V69.1. All dead are buried after battle.
V69.2. Hero buried as unknown merchant in foreign country.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70. Religious feasts and fasts.
V70.1. The first day of summer.
V70.1.1. Festival of Beltane (= May Day).
V70.2. Whitsuntide.
V70.3. Midsummer. (Cf. A1535.3.)
V70.3.1. Feast of Saint John the Baptist.
V70.4. Harvest-festival.
V70.5. Festival of Samhain (Hallowe'en, Tara [Temair]).
V70.5. Festival of Samhain (Hallowe'en, Tara [Temair]).
V70.6. Festival of Imbolg (Brigit, Candlemas).
V70.7. Feast of the new moon.
V70.8. Festival of Cenn (Crom) Cruaich.
V70.8. Festival of Cenn (Crom) Cruaich.
V70.8. Festival of Cenn (Crom) Cruaich.
V71. Sabbath.
V71. Sabbath.
V71. Sabbath.
V71. Sabbath.
V71.1. Jewish automaton will not work on Saturday.
V71.1.1. Jewish automaton will not work on Saturday.
V71.2. Misfortune ascribed to breaking Sabbath.
V71.3. Various events, from creation to Resurrection, that occurred on Sabbath.
V72. Christmas.
V72. Christmas.
V72.1. Little Christmas.
V73. Fasts.
V73.0.1. Christ in the desert overcomes devil by fasting.
V73.1. Fast to prevent pestilence.
V73.2. Fast improves health.
V73.3. Saint causes two youths to be fed with the best food, ---- says one is doomed to go to hell, the other will practice austerity in his old age.
V73.4. Fasting to secure a prosperous journey.
V73.5. Fasting on "Golden Fridays" as charm against certain misfortunes.
V73.6. Lent.
V73.6.1. Christ's forty-days' fast called "His Lent".
V73.6.2. Saint remains silent during Lent by holding stone in mouth.
V73.6.3. Holy man eats pork and beef in Lent because pig is raised on milk, ox on grass; ---- but refuses to eat cake because it contains weevils (live meat).
V75. Easter.
V75.1. Passover.
V80. Religious services -- miscellaneous.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81. Baptism.
V81.1. Girl having been stolen by mountain-folk must be baptized anew.
V81.2. Tails fall off mountain spirits when they are baptized.
V81.3. Metamorphosis brought about by baptism. ---- Monster born of union of heathen ruler and Christian maiden becomes a handsome boy on being baptized.
V81.4. Baptism of infants.
V81.5. Sea bath as purificatory rite.
V82. Circumcision. (Cf. F81.3.)
V83. Hymns.
V83. Hymns.
V84. Excommunication.
V84. Excommunication.
V84.1. Lightning strikes excommunicated person who enters church.
V84.2. Priest shows power of excommunication over host. ---- It turns black.
V84.3. Pirate excommunicated, goes on pilgrimage as penance.
V85. Religious pilgrimages. (Cf. V84.3.)
V86. Sign of the Cross.
V86. Sign of the Cross.
V86. Sign of the Cross.
V86. Sign of the Cross.
V86.1. Sign of cross protects from injury.
V86.1.1. Sign of cross prevents child from being stolen from cradle.
V86.1.2. Sign of cross prevents garment from burning.
V86.1.3. Man dies because he has killed a man with the sign of the cross on his forehead.
V86.2. Martyr with sign of cross on his heart. (Cf. V254.3.)
V86.3. Punishment for profane use of the cross. ---- Drunkard kisses cross, thinking it is a bottle of wine.
V86.4. Miraculous manifestations to scoffers of the cross.
V86.5. Praying with arms extended so as to form a cross.
V86.6. Loaf bursts in oven because sign of cross has not been made over it.
V86.7. The seven significances of the sign of the cross.
V87. Christening.
V87. Christening.
V88. Ceremony of the proclamation of a Buddha.
V91. Accidental calling on god's name held to outweigh a life of wickedness.
V92. "Our Lady's Tumbler." ---- A tumbler, turned monk, dances while others chant psalms. He is praising God in the only way he knows.
V93. Religious dancing. (Cf. A1542.)
V96. Ritual bathing.
V96.1. Taking bath in a sacred river (Ganges).
V97. Study of Tora as religious service.
V100--V199 Religious edifices and objects.
V100. Religious edifices and objects.
V110. Religious buildings.
V110. Religious buildings.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111. Churches.
V111.1. Visit to certain church protects from drowning on pilgrimage. (Cf. D1384, D1388.)
V111.2.
V111.3. Place where a church must be built miraculously indicated.
V111.3.1. Birds indicate the site where a church is to be built by making a model of the structure on the spot.
V111.3.2. Divine person points out site for church.
V112. Temples.
V112.0.1. Ark of the temple.
V112.1. Spirit huts.
V112.2. Mosques.
V112.3. Synagogues.
V113. Shrines. (Cf. C51.1.)
V113.0.1. Miracles at shrine.
V113.0.2. Vow to visit shrine.
V113.1. Cripples at shrine frightened and run away without crutches.
V113.2. Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful.
V114. Sacred groves.
V114. Sacred groves.
V114. Sacred groves.
V114.1. Sacred groves of druids.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115. Church bells.
V115.1.
V115.1.1. Sunken bell travels on sea bottom.
V115.1.2. Raising sunken church bell.
V115.1.3. Sunken church bell cannot be raised.
V115.1.3.1. Church bell cannot be raised because silence is broken. (Cf. C401.4.)
V115.1.3.2. Church bell cannot be raised because person blasphemes.
V115.2. Girl sold for new church bell. (Cf. S210.)
V115.3. Devil buys church bell and demoralizes congregation. ---- They have always come early before since they had no bell to announce the time. Now they wait for the bell.
V115.4. What church bells say.
V116. Altars. (Cf. V135.)
V116. Altars. (Cf. V135.)
V116. Altars. (Cf. V135.)
V117. Pulpits.
V118. Monasteries.
V118.0.1. Hell as a monastery -- the devil, abbot; sinners, monks.
V118.1. Monastery on otherworld island.
V118.2. Subaqueous monastery.
V118.2.1. Submarine oratory.
V120. Images.
V120. Images.
V120. Images.
V120. Images.
V120. Images.
V120. Images.
V120.1. Images and druids.
V121. Miraculous image of Christ impressed on napkin. ---- Veronica.
V122. Image bars way of nun trying to escape convent to join lover.
V122.1. Image of Jesus descends from cross and wounds nun leaving convent.
V123. Image blamed by suppliant for misfortunes. Type 1479**.
V123. Image blamed by suppliant for misfortunes. Type 1479**.
V123.1. God under compulsion: suppliant threatens to mutilate (crush) holy image if his wish is not fulfilled.
V124. Preacher criticizes the likeness of Christ exhibited in his church. ---- Says that it is unworthy of the original.
V124.1. Saint hangs cowl in thornbrake as symbol of Christ on the Cross.
V125. Casting of image of Buddha delayed until a maniac's mite is thrown into the furnace.
V126. Image of saint speaks.
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V128. Motions of various kinds attributed to images.
V128. Motions of various kinds attributed to images.
V128. Motions of various kinds attributed to images.
V128. Motions of various kinds attributed to images.
V128. Motions of various kinds attributed to images.
V128.1. An apple is offered to a statue of the Virgin and her child. ---- The infant reaches out and takes the fruit.
V128.2. Portraits exude oil.
V130. Other sacred objects connected with worship.
V131. Religious robes (vestments).
V131.1. Sight of holy fringe on garment restrains a man from fornication and reforms the harlot.
V131.2. White robes of druids.
V132. Holy water.
V132. Holy water.
V132.1. Holy water prevents a man from committing incest with his daughter. (Cf. T411.)
V132.2. Holy water disperses demons. (Cf. D1385.)
V132.2.1. Holy water removes mark placed on man's face by the devil.
V132.3. Drinking holy water facilitates cursing.
V133. Holy candles.
V134. Sacred wells.
V134. Sacred wells.
V134. Sacred wells.
V134. Sacred wells.
V134. Sacred wells.
V134.0.1. Tree beside holy well.
V134.1. Oracles and auguries from holy well.
V134.2. Offerings to holy wells.
V134.3. Fish in water from certain well: water refuses to boil till fish are returned to well.
V134.4. Ducks in pool in church: water in which they are placed refuses to boil till ducks are restored to pool.
V135. Altar cloths. (Cf. F962.12.2.)
V135.1. Poverty-stricken couple wrap newly-born child in altar-coverings.
V136. Bible.
V136.1. Copy of gospels buried with saint.
V137. House of woman who launders clothes for church spared in great fire.
V140. Sacred relics.
V140. Sacred relics.
V140. Sacred relics.
V140. Sacred relics.
V140.1. Angel reveals (buried) relics to saint.
V140.1. Angel reveals (buried) relics to saint.
V140.2. Saint's relics miraculously recovered.
V140.3. A cow licks the stone under which the secreted body of saint is buried.
V140.4. Testing the authenticity of relics: bones are cast into fire; with great noise they jump away from the flames.
V141. Possession of relic brings prosperity, its loss sickness.
V142. Devout possessor of false relics miraculously receives authentic ones.
V142.1. Sham relics perform miracles if faith is great.
V143. Saint's bones for lack of worship remove themselves from church. (Cf. D1641.)
V143.1. Saint's bones miraculously removed from reliquary broken in pillage.
V143.2. Relics (images) carried away return to their original church.
V144. Belief in miraculous powers of sacred relics.
V144.1. Sacred relics carried in battle to aid victory.
V144.2. The relics of saint protect horses from the attack of wild beasts.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V150. Sacred objects -- miscellaneous.
V151. Sacred writings.
V151. Sacred writings.
V151. Sacred writings.
V151.1. Captive released because of ability to recite beginning of Genesis. (Cf. J1185.)
V200--V299 Sacred persons.
V200. Sacred persons.
V200. Sacred persons.
V200. Sacred persons.
V200. Sacred persons.
V200. Sacred persons.
V200. Sacred persons.
V200.1. Flame illuminates cradle of sacred person. (Cf. H41.4.)
V201. God.
V201. God.
V201. God.
V202. Sacred spirits.
V205. Royal family as sacred.
V205. Royal family as sacred.
V205.1. Third son of king possesses sacred power.
V210. Religious founders.
V211. Christ.
V211. Christ.
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V211.0.1. Christ born from crown of Virgin's head.
V211.0.2. Christ conceived on same day He was crucified.
V211.0.3. Seventeen marvels at the birth of Christ.
V211.0.4. Christ as prophet.
V211.0.5. Christ called "druid".
V211.1. The Nativity of Christ.
V211.1. The Nativity of Christ.
V211.1. The Nativity of Christ.
V211.1. The Nativity of Christ.
V211.1. The Nativity of Christ.
V211.1. The Nativity of Christ.
V211.1.1. Air fragrant at Nativity. (Cf. V222.4.)
V211.1.2. Star shines through day of Nativity. (Cf. F961.2.)
V211.1.2.1. Hairy star appears before Nativity.
V211.1.3. Shining cloud marks place of Nativity.
V211.1.3.1. Vast intolerable light on night of Christ's Nativity.
V211.1.4. Virgin suffers no birth pangs at Christ's Nativity.
V211.1.5. Elements silent and motionless at Nativity.
V211.1.6. A "crown of thorns" among gifts given by the shepherds to Joseph, husband of Virgin Mary.
V211.1.7. Three (seven) druids come to adore infant Jesus.
V211.1.8. The Infant Jesus.
V211.1.8.1. Christ in form of an infant nursed by saint.
V211.1.8.2. Christ in form of an infant fondled by nuns.
V211.1.8.3. Christ as infant in mother's arms causes bare hillside to become field of wheat as protection.
V211.2. Christ on earth.
V211.2. Christ on earth.
V211.2. Christ on earth.
V211.2.1. Fiery pillar as sign of Christ's visit. (Cf. F964.0.1.)
V211.2.1.1. Christ disguised as leper.
V211.2.1.2. Christ disguised as beggar.
V211.2.1.2.1. Jesus had "dark hair and a long red beard".
V211.2.2. Christ leaves bachall after visit. (Cf. D1277.)
V211.2.3. The Crucifixion.
V211.2.3. The Crucifixion.
V211.2.3.0.1. Angel warns of Christ's danger.
V211.2.3.0.2. Smith's wife made nails for the Cross because her husband believed Christ to be a true prophet.
V211.2.3.1. Earth trembles at Crucifixion.
V211.2.3.2. Moon bloody at Crucifixion. (Cf. F961.3.)
V211.2.3.3. Sun darkened at Crucifixion. (Cf. F965.2.)
V211.3. Finding of the Cross.
V211.4. Construction of the Cross.
V211.4.1. Cross of Christ made of four kinds of wood.
V211.5. The five wounds of Christ.
V211.5.1. Blood and wine issue from wound in side of crucified Savior.
V211.6. Dialogue between Christ and the Virgin Mary.
V211.7. Christ's descent to hell.
V211.7.1. The harrowing of hell.
V211.7.2. Dialogue (debate) between Christ and Satan (at the harrowing of hell).
V211.7.3. The three bolts left on hell by Christ.
V211.8. Christ's resurrection (on March 27).
V211.9. Christ's ascent to Heaven (on May 5).
V211.10. Letter (message) of Christ.
V211.10.1. Christ sends message to voyaging clerics.
V212. Buddha.
V212.1. Sacred books received from Buddha in person.
V212.2. Precepts heard from Buddha in person.
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V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
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V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221.0.1. Relics of saint cure disease.
V221.0.1. Relics of saint cure disease.
V221.0.1.1. Oil flowing from relics has curative powers.
V221.0.1.2. The wine (water) occasionally used to bathe relics assumes healing powers.
V221.0.1.3. Shrine of saint carried around to suppress pestilence.
V221.0.2. Saint miraculously healed.
V221.0.2.1. Crippled saint miraculously receives horse and chariot.
V221.0.3. Miraculous healing power of saint as child.
V221.1. Saint cures palsy.
V221.2. Saint restores dumb man's speech. (Cf. D1507.)
V221.3. Saint cures leprosy.
V221.3.1. Leper cured by the kiss of a saint.
V221.4. Saint subdues madman. (Cf. D1508.1.)
V221.4.0.1. Saint cures frenzied animal.
V221.4.0.1.1. Saint's blessing sufficient to control a mad dog.
V221.5. Saint purifies monk with sign of the cross. (Cf. D1766.6.)
V221.6. Saint sustains man on gallows.
V221.7. Woman relieved of incurable malady by kissing letter from saint. (Cf. D1266.1.)
V221.8. Wounds cured by saint leave no scars.
V221.9. Cut off parts of body attached again by saint.
V221.10. Men with enormous and unnatural appetite cured by saint.
V221.11. Saint cures dumb person.
V221.12. Saint cures blindness.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
V222.0.1. Birth of saint predicted by visions of miracles.
V222.0.1. Birth of saint predicted by visions of miracles.
V222.0.1.1. Pillar of fire rises over woman pregnant with future saint.
V222.0.1.2. Saint identified by pillar of fire above her head.
V222.0.1.3. Dazzling heavenly light by day and night marks place of saint's birth.
V222.0.2. Angels appear above place where saint is born.
V222.1. Marvelous light accompanying saint.
V222.1. Marvelous light accompanying saint.
V222.1. Marvelous light accompanying saint.
V222.1.0.1. Supernaturally bright light marks sleeping infant saint.
V222.1.0.2. "Fair Drop" from Heaven falls upon infant saint.
V222.1.1. Radiance fills church when saint dies.
V222.1.2. Hand of saint made bright by Lord's touch. ---- Too splendid for man's sight thereafter.
V222.1.2. Hand of saint made bright by Lord's touch. ---- Too splendid for man's sight thereafter.
V222.1.2. Hand of saint made bright by Lord's touch. ---- Too splendid for man's sight thereafter.
V222.1.3. Column of light descends from heaven upon chosen man.
V222.1.4. Lights show where the body of saint is buried.
V222.2. Brake in which saint loses tooth bursts into flame.
V222.3. Choral singing accompanies saint.
V222.4. House of saint filled with fragrance.
V222.4.1. Aromatic smell of a saint's body.
V222.5. Oil bursts from ground as saint is made bishop.
V222.6. Bell sounds at approach of saint.
V222.6. Bell sounds at approach of saint.
V222.6.1. Church bells ring without aid of human hands at death of holy person.
V222.7. Dead holy man stretches hand from tomb to honor saint.
V222.8. Holy man passes through fire for his faith. ---- Only his clothing burns.
V222.9. Earthquake accompanies entrance of holy man into palace of heathen emperor.
V222.10. Saint falling into an abyss found perched in the branches of a tree which projected from the cliff. ---- As soon as the man is drawn up, the tree vanishes.
V222.11. Flowers fall from saint's mouth while he speaks. (Cf. D1454.2.1.)
V222.12. Holy man restores a garden to bloom.
V222.13. Sun sends shaft of heat to cook meat given persecuted saint.
V222.14. Roses lose thorns when saint walks on them.
V222.15. Saint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones.
V222.16. Robbers who enter saint's garden to steal are caused to spade it up for him. ---- This proves him to be saint.
V223. Saints have miraculous knowledge.
V223. Saints have miraculous knowledge.
V223. Saints have miraculous knowledge.
V223. Saints have miraculous knowledge.
V223. Saints have miraculous knowledge.
V223.1. Saint gives advice.
V223.2. Saint warns against poisoned well.
V223.3. Saint can perceive the thoughts of another man and reveal hidden sins.
V223.4. Saint helps with learning.
V223.4.1. Truant boy learns long lesson while asleep with head in saint's lap.
V223.5. Saints blessed with ability to discourse in the native idioms of the people whom they visit.
V223.5.1. Saint understands language of wren, fly, cat.
V223.6. Saint as prognosticator.
V223.6.1. Saint can foretell the weather.
V224. Miraculous replacement of objects (animals) for saint.
V224. Miraculous replacement of objects (animals) for saint.
V224. Miraculous replacement of objects (animals) for saint.
V224. Miraculous replacement of objects (animals) for saint.
V224.1. Objects used as firewood for saint miraculously replaced.
V224.2. Food (animals) eaten by saint miraculously replaced.
V224.2. Food (animals) eaten by saint miraculously replaced.
V224.3. Animals stolen from saint miraculously replaced.
V224.3. Animals stolen from saint miraculously replaced.
V224.4. Performing fox accidentally killed miraculously replaced for saint.
V224.5. Supply of lime for building church miraculously renewed for saint.
V225. Saints in several places at once.
V226. Saints as hermits.
V227. Saints have divine visitors.
V227. Saints have divine visitors.
V227.1. God gives staff of Jesus to saint.
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V228.1. Saint immune to poisoning.
V228.1.1. Saint drinks poison without being injured.
V228.2. Anchorite immune to magician's powers.
V229. Saints -- miscellaneous.
V229.1. Saint commands return from dead with supernatural information.
V229.2. Sanctity of saints.
V229.2. Sanctity of saints.
V229.2.1. Saintly babe repeatedly found with arms extended in form of cross.
V229.2.2. Saintly babe disgorges unclean food.
V229.2.3. Saint will drink only milk of cow milked by faithful woman.
V229.2.3.1. Saint as baby refuses to take mother's breast on Wednesdays and Fridays.
V229.2.4. Baptism of a wonder child is accompanied by a variety of phenomena.
V229.2.5. Place of saint's martyrdom perpetually green.
V229.2.6. Martyrs emit milk instead of blood from their wounds.
V229.2.6.1. Saint sheds tears of blood.
V229.2.7. Flowers grow on graves from the mouths or hearts of holy persons. (Cf. E631.1.)
V229.2.8. Saint's body remains unspoiled in the earth for a long time.
V229.2.9. Tombs of saints distill oil.
V229.2.10. Stones answer "Amen" after saint's preaching.
V229.2.11. Miracle saves saint from unjust censure.
V229.2.11.1. Saint causes gluttonous reptile to leap from saint's body into bishop's throat ---- and then return as proof of bishop's injustice.
V229.2.12. Extraordinary longevity of saints.
V229.2.12. Extraordinary longevity of saints.
V229.2.12. Extraordinary longevity of saints.
V229.2.12. Extraordinary longevity of saints.
V229.2.12. Extraordinary longevity of saints.
V229.2.12.1. Seven Irish saints who never died.
V229.2.12.2. Saint lives for 300 (100?) years without eating food or uttering evil.
V229.2.13. Saint promises to return from heaven.
V229.3. Saint banishes snakes.
V229.3. Saint banishes snakes.
V229.4. Saint overcomes (destroys) monsters (dragons).
V229.5. Saint banishes demons.
V229.5. Saint banishes demons.
V229.5. Saint banishes demons.
V229.5. Saint banishes demons.
V229.5. Saint banishes demons.
V229.5. Saint banishes demons.
V229.5.1. Saint confines monster (dragon) in lake.
V229.6. Saint in conflict with druid.
V229.6. Saint in conflict with druid.
V229.6. Saint in conflict with druid.
V229.6. Saint in conflict with druid.
V229.6.1. Saint limits powers of satirist (druid).
V229.6.2. Ale poisoned by druid miraculously purified by saint.
V229.6.3. Druid raised in air, cast down, and brains scattered on stone by power of saint.
V229.6.4. Druid by spells seeks to drive saint from island.
V229.7. Invaders miraculously defeated by saints.
V229.7.1. Saint drives away an army by bringing upon it a dense and smoky cloud. (Cf. D2163.4.)
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V229.9. Unusual fuel used by saints: burning stone, snow and icicles, marble pillar, and green timber.
V229.10. Broken objects restored to their original forms by saint.
V229.10.1. Burned clothes restored to their previous form.
V229.10.2. Holy man restores cut-off hands and feet.
V229.10.3. Saint causes grey hair to grow in black.
V229.11. Saint with tongue of fire (literally).
V229.12. Sinful beauty is converted and spends the end of her life doing penance. ---- (Mary Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Thais).
V229.13. Ground elevates itself to give protection or comfort to saint.
V229.14. Saint in anger shows strength: wall broken by his kick. (Cf. F610.)
V229.15. Saint disguised as poor man saves almsgiving king from punishment in hell.
V229.16. Lake of milk made through merit of saint.
V229.17. Saint's blessing causes a river to be best place for fishing.
V229.18. Dispute between two saints settled by angel.
V229.19. Objects mourn death of saint (holy man).
V229.20. Downfall of ascetic (saint).
V229.20.1. After birth of son holy person loses miraculous power.
V229.21. House and family appear overnight to afford hospitality to benighted priests. (Cf. Q45.1.)
V229.22. Severed head of saint speaks so that searchers can find it. (Cf. D1610.5.)
V229.23. Stone turns red when saint's picture is removed.
V229.24. Saint turns snakes to stones. (Cf. D420.)
V229.25. Conversation of animals reveals to man how to become saint.
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V230.1. Man beholds angels.
V230.2. Angels powerful.
V230.3. Angel and mortal struggle.
V231. Appearance of angel.
V231.1. Angel in bird shape.
V231.2. Shooting star as angel.
V231.3. Angel with four wings.
V231.4. Angel is form of cleric.
V231.5. Angel appears to woman to warn her not to force girl into marriage.
V231.6. Angel in the form of an old man.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232. Angel as helper.
V232.1. Angel as helper in battle.
V232.1.1. Angels appear and help boy prince slay treacherous uncle.
V232.2. Angel carries mortal.
V232.2.0.1. Angel carries boat to water.
V232.2.0.2. Angel transports saint's staff.
V232.3. Angels supply food to mortal.
V232.3.1. Angel shows saint where to dig for water.
V232.4. Angel looses man's fetters. (Cf. R121.)
V232.5. Angel as guide.
V232.5.1. Angel guides chariot.
V232.6. Angel reveals location of lost (buried) object.
V232.7. Gifts from angels.
V232.7.1. Angel brings cross as gift to saint.
V232.8. Angel helps Peter to escape from prison.
V232.9. Angel cleans hearth.
V232.10. Angels build church.
V233. Angel of death.
V233.1. Angel of death spares mother who is suckling children. ---- As punishment angel must serve as sexton. Type 795*.
V234. Songs of the angels.
V234.1. Angels sing in honor of saint.
V234.1.1. Angels sing to welcome saint.
V234.1.2. Angels sing over saint's body.
V234.1.3. Angel choir responds when saint receives orders.
V234.2. Angels sing on night of Christ's Nativity.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.
V235.0.1. Mortals visited by angel in vision. (Cf. V510.)
V235.0.2. Angel invoked by fasting.
V235.1. Angel announces birth of Christ to shepherds.
V235.2. Angel comforts repentant sinner.
V235.3. Angel bars abbot from his cell because abbot has cast out a sinning monk.
V236. Fallen angels.
V236.1. Fallen angels become fairies (dwarfs, trolls).
V237. Angel bars the way to Baalam's ass.
V238. Guardian angel. (Cf. F403.2.2.2, V232, 246.)
V238.1. Angels hover over mortal (saint).
V238.2. Angels melt snow around saintly babe.
V238.3. Service of angels marks saint's destination.
V238.4. Air above grave of converted druid full of angels.
V241. Angels honor mortal. (Cf. V234.1.)
V241.1. Angels attend saint's funeral.
V241.1.1. Angel directs saint's burial.
V241.2.
V241.2.1. Angels shed light upon saint's tomb.
V241.3. Angels run races before saint.
V241.4. Angel baptizes saint.
V241.4.1. Angel names child.
V241.5. Angels set heavenly veil upon head of pious woman.
V242.
V242.1. Train of angels rises from graveyard.
V242.2. Angel abides in church.
V242.2.1. Angels attend church service.
V242.3. Angel passes daily over blessed stone.
V243. Angel answers mortal's prayer.
V243.1. Angels appear above grave of fallen girl through virtue of prayers said by her lover (young monk).
V244. Angel beseeches at unholy grave of redeemed sinner until body is moved to sanctified ground.
V245. Angel punishes mortal.
V245.1. Angel scourges mortal for disobedience. to God. (Cf. Q220, Q325, Q458.)
V246. Angel counsels mortal. (Cf. V232, V238.)
V246.0.1. Angel leaves letter (book) with instructions for saint.
V246.0.2. Angel dictates (gives) book.
V246.1. Angel tells saint where to build his church.
V246.2. Angel as saint's teacher.
V246.3. Angel informs saint of coming of guests.
V247. Daily life of angels.
V248. Angels and God.
V249. Angels -- miscellaneous motifs.
V249.1. Angel makes proclamation.
V249.2. Language of angels.
V249.2.1. Hebrew the language of the angels.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250. The Virgin Mary.
V250.1. Irish saint as "Mary of the Gael".
V250.2. Virgin Mary has golden hair.
V251. Virgin Mary prevents (retards) death so as to save sinner's soul. ---- Permits time for repentance and absolution. (Sometimes resuscitation.)
V251. Virgin Mary prevents (retards) death so as to save sinner's soul. ---- Permits time for repentance and absolution. (Sometimes resuscitation.)
V251. Virgin Mary prevents (retards) death so as to save sinner's soul. ---- Permits time for repentance and absolution. (Sometimes resuscitation.)
V251.1. Virgin Mary brings man back to life after he has seen hell's torments.
V252. Virgin Mary defends innocent accused.
V252.1. Virgin Mary returns borrowed money and reveals cheat. ---- A man borrows money from a Jew with the Virgin as security. Unable to return the money in time, he commits the money to the sea with a prayer to the Virgin. The Jew received it but claims that the money is not paid. The Virgin reveals the cheat.
V252.2. Virgin Mary saves criminal from fire at stake.
V252.2. Virgin Mary saves criminal from fire at stake.
V253. Faithfulness to Virgin Mary, even if not to Christ, rewarded.
V254. Efficacy of saying "Aves".
V254.1. Saying of "Aves" obliterates sin.
V254.1. Saying of "Aves" obliterates sin.
V254.1.1. Virgin Mary supports robber on gallows because he once said "Ave Maria".
V254.2. Ship in storm saved because of sailors' "Ave Maria". (Cf. D2141.1.)
V254.3. "Ave" on the tongue. ---- Because of faithfulness in saying "Aves" the words are found imprinted on the dead man's tongue. (Cf. V86.2.)
V254.3.1. Blasphemer paralyzed in all members except tongue which had once said "Ave Maria".
V254.4. Devil exorcised by "Ave".
V254.5. Nun forgets to hail Mary and goes into the world to sin.
V254.6. Joseph and Mary threaten to leave heaven when the man who has always prayed to them is refused admittance. *Type 805*.
V254.7. Murdered boy still sings "Ave" after his death. ---- (Chaucer's Prioress's Tale.)
V254.7.1. Criminal who sad "Ave" beheaded. ---- His head calls repeatedly, "Ave Maria".
V254.8. Virgin Mary will not let devil (authorities) take robber noble who daily says "Ave".
V254.9. Virgin forbids devil to take robber as long as he continues to say two "Aves" daily.
V255. Virgin Mary has dissolute monk buried in consecrated ground: his only mass is that of the Virgin.
V255.1. Devotee of Virgin not buried in consecrated ground has lily issue from mouth so that his grave is made known.
V255.2. Virgin gives private mass to devout lady unable to attend.
V256. Miraculous healing by Virgin Mary. (Cf. D2161.)
V256.1. Healing spittle of Virgin Mary. (Cf. D1500.1.7.2.)
V256.2. Miracles of healing performed before image of Virgin Mary.
V256.3. Virgin Mary restores severed hand to Saint John Damascene. ---- He had cut it off to repress lust.
V256.3. Virgin Mary restores severed hand to Saint John Damascene. ---- He had cut it off to repress lust.
V256.4. Virgin Mary saves life of man who at devil's instigation has castrated himself. ---- She will not, however, restore his severed members.
V256.5. Virgin Mary restores life to drowned man who always had saluted her.
V261. Virgin Mary designates favorite for election for office.
V261.1. Virgin restores office to an ignorant man because of his faith.
V261.2. Virgin pardons man who repented for cheating in election.
V262. Virgin Mary supplies mead for unprepared hostess of the king.
V263. Portrait of the Virgin appears to devotee.
V264. Virgin Mary rescues man attacked by the devil.
V264.1. Virgin Mary brings man a pact he signed with the devil and frees the man from devil's power.
V264.1. Virgin Mary brings man a pact he signed with the devil and frees the man from devil's power.
V265. Virgin miraculously prevents nun (monk) from deserting cloister.
V265. Virgin miraculously prevents nun (monk) from deserting cloister.
V265.1. Image of Virgin tries in vain to keep nun from leaving convent.
V266. Virgin Mary converts a Jew. (Cf. V330.)
V267. Devotee of Virgin is comforted in the hour of death.
V268. Miracles performed under protection of Virgin Mary.
V268.1. Boy under protection of Virgin Mary pulled from well alive after a week.
V268.2. Virgin Mary saves devotee from death in waves.
V268.3. Virgin Mary destroys Moorish army besieging Constantinople.
V268.4. Virgin Mary saves devotee's son from shipwreck.
V268.5. Image of Virgin Mary works miracles.
V271. Virgin Mary as foster mother. Type 710.
V275. Virgin Mary comforts repentant criminals.
V276. Virgin Mary appears to erring man.
V276.1. Virgin Mary appears to erring monk and exalts him to prayer. ---- His prayers weave her a garment.
V276.2. Virgin Mary appears and pardons monk who has been too overworked to pray to her.
V276.3. Virgin Mary aids repentant slayer of priest. ---- Priest is resurrected in order to forgive murderer and then is returned to tomb.
V277. Virgin Mary appears to devotee.
V277.1. Virgin Mary appears to devout nun with infant Jesus. ---- The nun devoutly prayed to see Him.
V281. Devotee of Virgin Mary given present by her.
V282. Stella Maris: Virgin Mary as protectress of sailors.
V283. Testament of Virgin Mary.
V284. During a flood the Virgin descends into the streets to save her image from the flood waters.
V290. Other sacred persons.
V291. Master poets (ollamhs) as sacred persons.
V292. The Apostles of Christ.
V292.1. Appearance of the Apostles.
V292.2. The Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
V293. Lepers as sacred persons.
V294. The Pope.
V300--V399 Religious beliefs.
V300. Religious beliefs.
V300. Religious beliefs.
V310. Particular dogmas.
V311. Belief in the life to come.
V311.0.1. Doctrine of immortality taught by druids.
V311.1. Man converted to belief in future life on deathbed. ---- Feels sure nevertheless that nothing will come of it.
V311.2. Dying man refuses to believe in life to come.
V311.3. Given choice between life and heaven, person chooses latter.
V312. Belief in Immaculate Conception. (Cf. T510.)
V312.1. Proclamation of dogma of Immaculate Conception stops plague.
V312.2. Man miraculously dies for opposing dogma of Immaculate Conception. ---- Attempt to disprove the dogma by false miracle. Sham dead man is to rise if the dogma is not true. He is found to be actually dead.
V313. Last judgment.
V313. Last judgment.
V313. Last judgment.
V315. Belief in the Atonement.
V315.1. Power of repentance.
V316. Efficacy of prayer.
V316.1. "He that asks shall receive." ---- Hermit wants to prove truth of these words of the Gospel and asks for the hand of the princess. Performs the difficult task imposed upon him.
V317. The chosen people.
V317.1. Holy land.
V320. Heretics.
V320. Heretics.
V321. Insane man burns heretic in his bed: restored to his senses as reward.
V322. Heretical baptism. ---- Heathen baptized into devil's possession.
V323. Atheists.
V323.1. Epicureans regarded as atheists.
V325. Baptismal water vanishes before Aryan bishop.
V326. Hero renounces heaven because dead companions (heathen) are not here.
V327. Author of book against heretic honored by Virgin Mary and angels.
V328. Man sets fire to his house and perishes in it rather than accept Christianity.
V330. Conversion from one religion to another.
V331. Conversion to Christianity. (Cf. M177.1.)
V331.0.1. Druid converted to Christianity.
V331.0.2.
V331.1. Conversion to Christianity through miracle.
V331.1.1. Conversion to Christianity by miracle of seeing blood flow from Jesus' image.
V331.1.2. Conversion to Christianity through appearance of the cross and angels.
V331.1.3. Conversion to Christianity because the heathen gods prove to be less powerful.
V331.1.4. Conversion because saint's staff miraculously goes through neophytes' foot.
V331.2. Conversion to Christianity on pain of death.
V331.3. Miraculous beautification upon conversion to Christianity. (Cf. D1860.)
V331.4. Conversion to Christianity through repentance.
V331.5. Conversion to Christianity through love.
V331.6. Conversion to Christianity out of gratitude. ---- Ruler has captive baptize his sister and then marry her. Grateful for past kindnesses.
V331.7. Saladin asks to be made a Christian knight.
V331.8. Fairies converted to Christianity.
V331.9. Swans (transformed children) do not suffer in harsh weather after conversion to Christianity.
V331.9. Swans (transformed children) do not suffer in harsh weather after conversion to Christianity.
V331.10. Conversion to Christianity because of admiration for Christian virtue.
V331.10.1. Conversion to Christianity through show of forgiveness and gentleness.
V332. Baptism of heathen.
V336. Conversion to Judaism.
V340. Miracle manifested to non-believers.
V340. Miracle manifested to non-believers.
V341. Pagan sybil draws picture of Madonna and Child in sand. ---- Result of vision.
V342. Sign of cross intimidates Jews. Type 1709*.
V343. Jews protesting against marriage of Jewess and Christian are struck dumb.
V344. Temple about to be taken over by pagans saved by appearance of a Sign of the Cross (image of the Virgin).
V345. Dove flies out of man's mouth. ---- Impious anchorite has agreed to forsake his religion in return for the possession of a maid. When he repents the dove reenters his mouth.
V345. Dove flies out of man's mouth. ---- Impious anchorite has agreed to forsake his religion in return for the possession of a maid. When he repents the dove reenters his mouth.
V346. Skeptic kicked by sacrificial animal.
V347. Idols found on their faces after saint's arrival.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V350. Conflicts between religions.
V351. Duel (debate) to prove which religion is better.
V351.1. Wise heretic is vanquished in debate with a Christian.
V351.1.1. Brahmin wins a discussion on religion.
V351.2. Unbeliever loses argument with hermit.
V351.3. Magician overpowered in contest with a saint.
V351.3.1. Contest of St. Peter with Simon Magus, a magician.
V351.4. Prayer-contest to prove which religion is better.
V351.5. Contest of miraculous powers between a Yogi and a Musselman.
V352. Pagan disputant with Christian stricken dumb.
V352.1. Pagan disputant with Christian bested by the words put in his mouth by God.
V354. Life of heroic age preferable to Christian living.
V355. Buddhists become slaves of Taoists because they cannot produce rain.
V356. Christian hero (saint) overthrows heathen idols.
V356.1. Saint dispels pagan devils from ancient shrines.
V356.2. Pagan shrines and idols, or magic books destroyed by fire from heaven.
V356.2.1. Heathen idols sink into earth up to their necks through power of saint.
V356.3. Saint's bachall pointed at idol defaces it. (Cf. V347.)
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V360. Christian and Jewish traditions about each other.
V361.
V362. Plague from Jews' poisoning wells.
V363. Jewish child thrown into oven by father for taking eucharist. ---- Preserved by Virgin Mary.
V363.1. Jewish child resurrected (saved by power of Virgin Mary) after being burned to ashes for eating consecrated bread in Christian church.
V364. A Christianized Jew becomes a priest. ---- During Mass, he stabs the consecrated host, blood flows (Cf. C55, J1261.2, V30. He kills the other priest who saw him commit the sacrilege, and before killing, forces him to renounce his faith. A miracle exposes the murderer.)
V365. Jewish traditions concerning non-Jews.
V380. Religious beliefs -- miscellaneous.
V381. Heathen beats his god because of misfortune. (Cf. V123.)
V382. Doctor ridicules belief in Devil, Heaven, and Hell.
V383. Religious fanaticism.
V383.1. Prolonged prostration in worship causes death.
V383.2. Hindu drinks water by mistake from Mohammedan's vessel: his fortune turns to evil.
V385. Romans won't include Jesus in their pantheon because of his poverty which they hate.
V400--V449 Religious virtues.
V400. Charity.
V400. Charity.
V410. Charity rewarded.
V410.1. Charity rewarded above prayer or hearing of masses.
V410.2. Prince's motto: charity conquers.
V411. Miraculous reward for charities.
V411.1. Queen gives away a sleeve of her dress: miraculously restored.
V411.2. Saint exchanges coat with beggar: gold sleeves miraculously appear.
V411.3. Man who has given all in charity has foot amputated: restored miraculously.
V411.4. Stones turn to gold for charitable money-lender. ---- Hence money borrowed for wedding is never refused by lenders.
V411.4. Stones turn to gold for charitable money-lender. ---- Hence money borrowed for wedding is never refused by lenders.
V411.5. Treasure given away by saint miraculously restored.
V411.5.1. Man earns as much as he gave away for charity in his former life.
V411.6. Food given away by saint miraculously restored.
V411.7. Charitable king blows nose after having given to beggar. ---- Huge ruby appears in his kerchief.
V411.8. Jesus appears to St. Martin when he gives his cloak to beggar.
V411.9. Charity miraculously repaid: flame settles on forehead.
V412. Miraculous manifestations during act of charity.
V412.1. Bread stolen by St. Nicholas for purpose of feeding poor is miraculously restored.
V412.2.
V413. Son's acts of charity save his father's soul.
V414. Saint shares punishment of sinful man whose cloak he shared in life.
V415. Children envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. ---- In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold reward.
V416. Act of charity obliterates sin.
V416.1. Man convicted of cheating at his bookkeeping is excused when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor.
V420. Reward of the uncharitable.
V421. Shipman refuses alms: ship turned to stone.
V421. Shipman refuses alms: ship turned to stone.
V422. Uncharitable knight drives bargain even in giving alms: devoured by serpents. ---- His alms of corn turn to serpents.
V425. Uncharitable pope wanders after death.
V430. Charity -- miscellaneous motifs.
V431. Charity of usurers ineffective.
V432. Man beggars self by charity.
V433. Charity of saints.
V434. Conqueror restores kingship to king for charity.
V435. Pious man charitable to man who has formerly refused him charity.
V436. Mendicant refuses to accept alms from barren woman.
V437. Saint repeatedly bestows father's goods upon the poor.
V438. Merit for charity lost by asking work in return.
V440. Other religious virtues.
V441. Forgiveness.
V441.1. Saint heals enemy.
V450--V499 Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V450. Religious orders.
V451. First-born son and one of every ten born thereafter given to Church.
V453. Levites as religious order.
V460. Clerical virtues and vices.
V461. Clerical virtue.
V461.1. Obedient and industrious nun the worthiest in the convent.
V461.2. Truthful monk refuses to cheat even for his order.
V461.3. Chastity as clerical virtue.
V461.4. Submission as clerical virtue.
V461.4.1. Truthfulness as clerical virtue.
V461.5. Extended meditations as clerical virtue.
V461.6. Monk lives where people speak ill of him to avoid danger of flattery.
V461.7. Clerical virtue of absolute faith. ---- Man captured by robbers is so confident that God will protect him that he is saved.
V461.8. Poverty as saintly virtue.
V462. Asceticism.
V462. Asceticism.
V462. Asceticism.
V462. Asceticism.
V462.0.1. Kingship renounced to become an ascetic.
V462.0.2. Since salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed useless.
V462.0.3. Husband abandons wife to become ascetic.
V462.0.4. Murderer becomes ascetic.
V462.1. Maintaining silence as ascetic practice.
V462.2. Ascetic fasting.
V462.2. Ascetic fasting.
V462.2.1. Ascetic faster increases his sufferings by placing food and drink before himself.
V462.2.2. Person refuses to eat dainties.
V462.2.2.1. Saint refuses pearls as alms and asks for food.
V462.2.3. Death from ascetic devotions.
V462.3. Ascetic weeping.
V462.4. Asceticism: allowing self no repose.
V462.4.1. Asceticism: cleric practices continual genuflexion.
V462.4.2. Cross vigil. ---- Cleric stands with hands extended in shape of cross.
V462.4.3. Saint always extends one hand toward heaven while performing such acts as eating or reaping.
V462.5. Ascetic cleric tortures his flesh.
V462.5.0.1. Ascetic cleric prays to become diseased.
V462.5.1. Ascetic cleric wears hair garment.
V462.5.1.1. Saint never wears woolen clothing, but skins of wolves and other beasts.
V462.5.1.2. Ascetic cleric sleeps (prays) with wet sheet (mantle) about him.
V462.5.2. Ascetic cleric sleeps on stone.
V462.5.2.1. Saint takes but little sleep.
V462.5.2.2. Saint stands for seven years without sleep.
V462.6. Ascetic cleric avoids listening to music.
V462.7. Ascetic cleric never smiles.
V462.8. Ascetic immersion.
V462.8.1. Saint confines himself in narrow pen during Lent.
V462.8.2. Saint stands (asleep) while bird builds nest and hatches brood in his hand.
V462.9. Ascetic cleric leads mendicant life.
V462.10. Ascetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's back.
V462.11. Ascetic cleric renounces world (to become a herder).
V462.12. Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test him.
V462.13. Evil ascetic misuses magic powers obtained through religious meditation.
V462.14. Boy takes twelve years to wash off ascetic's dirt.
V463. Religious martyrdom.
V463. Religious martyrdom.
V463.1. Cleric surrenders life that body may consecrate land.
V463.2. First Martyr: John the Baptist.
V464. Self-torture to secure holiness.
V465. Clerical vices.
V465. Clerical vices.
V465.1. Incontinence of clergy.
V465.1. Incontinence of clergy.
V465.1. Incontinence of clergy.
V465.1. Incontinence of clergy.
V465.1.1. Incontinent monk (priest).
V465.1.1. Incontinent monk (priest).
V465.1.1.1. Monk seduces girl; then kills her; becomes infidel.
V465.1.1.2. Marriage of clerics.
V465.1.2. Incontinent nun.
V465.1.2. Incontinent nun.
V465.1.2. Incontinent nun.
V465.1.2. Incontinent nun.
V465.1.2.1. Nun hidden by abbess from pursuing knight betrays her own hiding place to him. ---- Is afterwards abandoned.
V465.1.2.2. Nun tempted into sinning with man who tells her God can't see things that happen in the dark.
V466. Simony.
V466.1. Pope guilty of simony.
V467. Priest uses cook-book instead of breviary.
V468. Priest is bribed into betraying the confessional.
V468. Priest is bribed into betraying the confessional.
V470. Clerical vows.
V471. Taking clerical vows heals disease.
V472. Clerical vows because of disappointment in love.
V472.1. Man becomes hermit when he realizes selfishness of his beloved's love. (Cf. T93.2.)
V473. Former monk refuses to take pay for his work, considering it as a religious act.
V475. Renunciation of clerical vows.
V475. Renunciation of clerical vows.
V475. Renunciation of clerical vows.
V475.1. Monk who has left order punished (dies in torment).
V475.2. Monk who has left his order forgiven and miraculously reinstated.
V475.3. Man who is disappointed with his religious order renounces his vow.
V475.4. Saint leaves his order because he is fond of music.
V475.5. Anchorite tempted by money to return to worldly life.
V500--V599 Religious motifs -- miscellaneous.
V510. Religious visions.
V510. Religious visions.
V510. Religious visions.
V510. Religious visions.
V510.1. God speaks in vision to devotee.
V510.2. Only man without sin can see God.
V511. Visions of the other world.
V511.1. Visions of heaven.
V511.1. Visions of heaven.
V511.1. Visions of heaven.
V511.1. Visions of heaven.
V511.1. Visions of heaven.
V511.1.1. Saints have visions of heaven.
V511.1.2. Vision of angels defending road to heaven against devils.
V511.2. Visions of hell.
V511.2. Visions of hell.
V511.2.1. Vision of fires of hell.
V511.2.2. Vision of gate of hell.
V511.2.3. Girl sees vision of her mother in hell. ---- She chooses to live the poor life of her father which leads to heaven.
V511.3. Visions of purgatory.
V511.4. Visions of Land of the Saints.
V512. Vision of judgment. ---- Man sees his own soul being judged.
V512.1. His faith into the balance. ---- A clerk sees his good and evil deeds being weighed. He asks them to throw his faith in Christ (the Virgin) into the scale. He is saved.
V512.2. Man whose only good deed was unintentional sees this deed outweigh all his evil in the scales of judgment.
V513. Saints have miraculous visions.
V513.1. Saint incited (instructed) through vision.
V513.2. Vision of the earth in the devil's snares. ---- Saint sees earth in snares.
V514. Non-religious visions.
V514. Non-religious visions.
V514. Non-religious visions.
V515. Allegorical visions.
V515. Allegorical visions.
V515.1. Allegorical visions -- religious.
V515.1.1.
V515.1.2. Wife sees moon enter mouth of husband; husband sees star enter mouth of wife: famous child (saint) will be born.
V515.1.3. Saint sees vision of flames covering Ireland quenched except for sparks; ---- then great light appears, dispelling darkness. Flames are those of the faith brought by St. Patrick; they become less until restored by St. Columkill.
V515.1.3.1. When shower falls, small stone becomes larger, large stone wastes away. ---- Vision of present and future state of Irish church.
V515.1.3.2. Vision in which swineherd sees yew tree upon a rock, with an oratory in front of it and angels ascending from it. ---- Vision interpreted by druid as symbolizing founding of Cashel and the royal line of Munster.
V515.1.4. Constantine's vision of the Cross.
V515.1.5. Vision of dry bones.
V515.2. Allegorical visions -- political.
V515.2.1. Vision in which chieftain sees pair of gray seals that sucked at his two breasts. ---- They are two of his allies who are being overpowered by invaders.
V515.2.1.1. Vision in which king sees whelp reared by him gather dogs of Ireland and Britain against him but suffer death in battle at last. ---- The whelp is one of king's two foster sons.
V515.2.2. Vision in which saint foresees allegorically the ramifications of king's family.
V515.2.3. Vision in which king sees his four sons changed into lion, greyhound, beagle, cur, ---- which fight with alternating success, until lion subdues the other three.
V516. Vision of future.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V520. Salvation.
V522. Sinner reformed after visit to heaven and hell.
V523. The only king ever saved in spite of himself.
V525. Sinner who thinks of God saved; devotee who thinks of worldly things goes to hell.
V526. Worship of particular deity brings reward of birth in Brahma-world.
V530. Pilgrimages.
V531. Pilgrimage to Holy Land.
V531.1. Pilgrimage to follow roads Christ walked.
V532. Pilgrimage to Mecca.
V533. Pilgrimage to Benares.
V535. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
V540. Intervention of Providence saves person's life. (Cf. R341.)
V541. Man is prevented from taking passage on ship which later sinks.
V542. Man hears voice telling him to leave danger spot in mine.
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