Reward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.) — Mythoi

Motif

Reward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Piety rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q25

Cited in the index

general *Type 768
general Dh II 266
general Legenda Aurea (ed. Graesse) 432
general *Schwickert Zs. f. Vksk. NF III 14–26
general Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 111 No. 101
general *Loomis White Magic 114.

Within the index

Filed under Piety rewarded.

1 finer motif beneath it

Boy risks life to carry leper across stream. Leper is Christ in disguise

Filed beside it

Reward for service of god, hero, or ascetic for a period Fulfillment of precepts rewarded Reward for religious sacrifice Reward for faith Reward for securing converts Keeping fast rewarded Reward for faith: boy doomed to die saved (miraculously) Reward for religious pilgrimage Reward for offering food to crucifix (Madonna) Reward for saying of prayers. (Cf. V50.) Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly reward Reward for writing hymn. (Cf. Q172.5.) Reward for repentance. (Cf. Q174.1.) Reward for carrying out dead man's request Reward for attendance on holy man. (Cf. Q116.1.) Piety rewarded – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Eternal ferryman. Always transports passengers and when the ruler is in danger takes his place. (Cf. Q25.)

Carried in tale types

St · ATU 768 1 recorded variant

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