Holy water — Mythoi

Motif

Holy water.

Religion. · Religious edifices and objects. · Other sacred objects connected with worship. · view the constellation · filed as V132

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 5
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Purgatory 31
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLI XLI. Isis
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLIV XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXVIII XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg.
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics IV 61f.

Within the index

Filed under Other sacred objects connected with worship.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Holy water prevents a man from committing incest with his daughter. (Cf. T411.) Holy water disperses demons. (Cf. D1385.) Drinking holy water facilitates cursing

Filed beside it

Religious robes (vestments) Holy candles Sacred wells Altar cloths. (Cf. F962.12.2.) Bible House of woman who launders clothes for church spared in great fire

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Holy water procures fire or light. (Cf. V132.) Magic cure by bathing in consecrated water (lake, etc.). (Cf. D1500.1.18.5, V132.)

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