μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *Ward III 7
  • general *Crane Vitry Nos. 92, 94, 95.
Within the index

Filed under Charity rewarded.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Bread stolen by St. Nicholas for purpose of feeding poor is miraculously restoredThe more bread (flour) the monks give to the poor the more God places in their bins. (Cf. D1652.1.1.)
Filed beside it
Charity rewarded above prayer or hearing of massesPrince's motto: charity conquersMiraculous reward for charitiesSon's acts of charity save his father's soulSaint shares punishment of sinful man whose cloak he shared in lifeChildren envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold rewardAct of charity obliterates sin

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