Sacred relics — Mythoi

Motif

Sacred relics.

Religion. · Religious edifices and objects. · Sacred relics. · view the constellation · filed as V140

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 13
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter IV
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XXXIII
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVII
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XIV XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium

Cited in the index

general **Saintyves Les réliques et les images légendaires (Paris, 1912)
general Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 493a.

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Angel reveals (buried) relics to saint Saint's relics miraculously recovered A cow licks the stone under which the secreted body of saint is buried Testing the authenticity of relics: bones are cast into fire; with great noise they jump away from the flames Possession of relic brings prosperity, its loss sickness Devout possessor of false relics miraculously receives authentic ones Saint's bones for lack of worship remove themselves from church. (Cf. D1641.) Belief in miraculous powers of sacred relics

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