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Motif

Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J225.0.1

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Scholars’ trail — 14references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas III 23, *296, Goebel Jüdische Motive in märchenhaften Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 116ff., *Neuman.
  • general *Type 759
  • general *BP IV 326 No. 3
  • general **DeCock Studien en Essays 178ff.
  • general *Crane Vitry 179 No. 109
  • general Herbert III 8
  • general Fb "uskyldig"
  • general Alphabet Nos. 68, 411
  • general Scala Celi 15a No. 85
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 508b nn. 9–11
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 32
  • general **O. Rohde Die Erzählung vom Einsiedler und dem Engel (Leipzig, 1894)
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 682. – Irish: Beal XXI 336
Within the index

Filed under Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong.

1 finer motif beneath it
Angel explains to hermit why God lets a sinner die in peace and have big funeral while holy hermit is slain by a wild beast
Filed beside it
God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of oneAngel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutableYouth made lame: had kicked his motherLion sent to kill a man: frees him from possibility of sinning and sojourn in purgatoryAngel takes cup from old man. Done lest he love the cup too muchAngel (Jesus) kills man. Done because man is plotting a murderAngel kills man because he loves his child too muchSaint gives liberally to gambler, little to beggar. Gambler is generous, beggar hoardsForestman who longs to do evil is sent to hell: writer, who repents, is sent to heaven. God justifies this to his sageEvil mother has fine funeral, good father poor

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