His faith into the balance. A clerk sees his good and evil deeds being weighed. He asks them to throw his faith in Christ (the Virgin) into the scale. He is saved

Motif

His faith into the balance. A clerk sees his good and evil deeds being weighed. He asks them to throw his faith in Christ (the Virgin) into the scale. He is saved.

Religion. · Religious motifs – miscellaneous. · Religious visions. · view the constellation · filed as V512.1

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 II 651 No. 5
general *Herbert III 471.

Within the index

Filed under Vision of judgment. Man sees his own soul being judged.

Filed beside it

Man whose only good deed was unintentional sees this deed outweigh all his evil in the scales of judgment

Carried in tale types

His Faith into the Balance · ATU 802A*2 recorded variants

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