μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Marvelous light accompanying saint.

Religion. · Sacred persons. · Saints. · view the constellation · filed as V222.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
  • general Alphabet No. 473
  • general Plummer cxxxviii, clxxviii
  • general Loomis White Magic 27f.
Within the index

Filed under Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Supernaturally bright light marks sleeping infant saint "Fair Drop" from. Heaven falls upon infant saint Radiance fills church when saint dies Hand of saint made bright by Lord's touch. Too splendid for man's sight thereafter Column of light descends from heaven upon chosen man Lights show where the body of saint is buried
Filed beside it
Birth of saint predicted by visions of miracles Angels appear above place where saint is born Brake in which saint loses tooth bursts into flame Choral singing accompanies saint House of saint filled with fragrance Oil bursts from ground as saint is made bishop Bell sounds at approach of saint Dead holy man stretches hand from tomb to honor saint Holy man passes through fire for his faith. Only his clothing burns Earthquake accompanies entrance of holy man into palace of heathen emperor 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 Flowers fall from saint's mouth while he speaks. (Cf. D1454.2.1.) Holy man restores a garden to bloom Sun sends shaft of heat to cook meat given persecuted saint Roses lose thorns when saint walks on them Saint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones

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