Man who does not know how to pray so holy that he walks on water — Mythoi

Motif

Man who does not know how to pray so holy that he walks on water.

Religion. · Religious services. · Prayer. · view the constellation · filed as V51.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 827*
Russian Andrejev No. 827*.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 332
general **Andrejev "Tri Starca" Novoje Delo (Kazan, 1922) (see Anderson Zs. f. Vksk. XXX-XXXII 171)

Within the index

Filed under Learning to pray.

Filed beside it

Worldly-minded learn to pray by thinking of their usual business Woman shows that the Lord's Prayer is the best Woman taught that it is better to pray before Christ's image than before a saint's "Beatus" best prayer for saving condemned souls. (Cf. E754.1.1.)

Carried in tale types

A Pious Innocent Man Knows Nothing of God (previously A Shepherd Knows Nothing of God) · ATU 827 1 recorded variant

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