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• Person saved from devil by prayer to Virgin. G303.16.2.2
• Devil's power avoided by blessing. G303.16.2.3
• Man escapes devils by reading Lord's blessing. G303.16.2.3.1
• Devil flees at pope's blessing. G303.16.2.3.2
• Devils disappear when priest blesses bread. G303.16.2.3.3
• A nun eating unblessed lettuce eats a demon. G303.16.2.3.4
• Blessing reveals seemingly pure stream to be devil's trap which kills whoever drinks from it. G303.16.2.3.5
• Devils driven away by hymn (psalm). G303.16.2.4
• Demon cannot hurt holy man or woman. G303.16.2.5
• Devil's power avoided by the cross. G303.16.3
• Devils driven away by cross. G303.16.3.1
• Devil cannot endure cross made by straps of knapsack. G303.16.3.2
• Devils put to flight by cross made of leaves. G303.16.3.3
• Devil made to disappear by making sign of the cross. G303.16.3.4
• Knight dismisses devil in name of cross. G303.16.3.5
• Devil made visible by making sign of cross. G303.16.3.6
• Words of religious comfort cause devil and his crew to vanish. G303.16.4
• Administering sacrament destroys devil's power. G303.16.5
• Chaplain administers sacrament and saves woman's soul from devil. G303.16.5.1
• Devil disappears when offered host. G303.16.5.2
• Devil is chased by holy water. G303.16.7
• Devil leaves at mention of God's name. G303.16.8
• Devil is made impotent by confession. G303.16.9
• Angels save person from the devil. G303.16.10
• Various holy persons save one from devil. G303.16.11
• Devil is driven out of a man by Peter. G303.16.11.1
• Devil prevented from revenge by pious priest. G303.16.11.2
• Person chases the devil away. Devil says, "You also have stolen once." G303.16.11.3
• Saint expels devil to hell. G303.16.11.4
• Saint's dispute with devil. G303.16.11.5
• Ringing of churchbell causes devil to lose his power. G303.16.12
• Devil may be escaped by going to church every day. G303.16.13
• The devil exorcised. G303.16.14
• Priest chases devil away. G303.16.14.1
• Priest separates girl from devil's claws. G303.16.14.1.1
• Devil chased by the fumes of burning arsenic. G303.16.14.2
• Devil exorcised by burning wood. G303.16.14.2.1
• Devil overpowered or chased with a stick of rowan-tree. G303.16.14.3
• Why the devil fears the rowan-tree. G303.16.14.3.1
• The devil is exorcised with bell, book, and candle. G303.16.14.4
• Devil avoids cockscomb flowers. G303.16.14.5
• Devils leave hermit who turns other cheek when struck. G303.16.15
• Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. G303.16.16
• Devil cannot enter a house with horseshoe over door. G303.16.17
• One must not whistle after sunset, else the devil will go along with one. G303.16.18
• Christians are prohibited from whistling in dark lest the devil appear. G303.16.18.1
• Miscellaneous ways in which the devil may be escaped or his power destroyed. G303.16.19
• Man secure from devil on horse. G303.16.19.1
• Devil goes with one if one spits on old castaway brooms. G303.16.19.2
• One is freed if he can set a task the devil cannot perform. G303.16.19.3
• Task for devil: sweeping and winnowing peas on ice. G303.16.19.3.1
• Task for devil: making needles. G303.16.19.3.2
• Task for devil: washing a Jew (Jewess), to rid him (her) of the evil smell. (Cf. A1662.1.) G303.16.19.3.3
• Devil (Satan) flees when cock is made to crow. (Cf. G303.17.1.1.) G303.16.19.4
• Man imitates cock crowing: devil is deceived. G303.16.19.4.1
• Demon has to serve girl whom he cannot persuade to break vow of chastity. (Cf. D1714.) G303.16.19.5
• Man protected from devil by holding three-year old child through night. G303.16.19.6
• Devil comes out of man when monk recognizes devil's voice in man. G303.16.19.7
• Knight saved from devil by friends. G303.16.19.8
• Devil becomes powerless when called by name. G303.16.19.9
• Devil exorcised at time of Christ's Nativity. G303.16.19.10
• Devil frustrated by charity. G303.16.19.11
• Devil can't approach Christian girl. G303.16.19.12
• Devil cannot follow man over running water. (Cf. F383.2, G273.4.) G303.16.19.13
• Devil escaped by injuring him with silver bullet. (Cf. D1384.5.) G303.16.19.14
• Devil cannot enter magic circle made to keep him out. (Cf. D1381.11.) G303.16.19.15
• Devil can be driven away by sacrifice. G303.16.19.16
• Devil disappears because he is frightened. G303.16.19.17
• Devil frightened by a woman. G303.16.19.17.1
• Catching the devil. The devil is caught with the help of a sacred article (rosary, scapular) or some other thing (band for binding breeches, a switch of the rowan-tree). G303.16.19.18
• Beating the devil. One must give him an odd number of strokes. Devil asks for one stroke more. G303.16.19.19
• Devil is killed by hunter. A slake of tar remains. G303.16.19.20
• Man is rescued from devil by baptism. G303.16.6
• The devil's disappearance from the world. G303.17
• When the devil disappears. G303.17.1
• Devil disappears when cock crows. (Cf. G303.16.19.4.) G303.17.1.1
• Devil rebels and disappears on last day. G303.17.1.2
• Devil disappears after erection of Tabernacle. G303.17.1.3
• Physical circumstances of devil's disappearance. G303.17.2
• Devil detected, goes up chimney in smoke. G303.17.2.1
• Devil disappears in a whirlpool. G303.17.2.2
• Devil goes out through stove with great noise. G303.17.2.3
• Devil and sinful priest disappear amid blaze of fire in the river. G303.17.2.4
• Devil retreats into hell amid thunder and lightning. G303.17.2.5
• Devil disappears in a puddle. G303.17.2.6
• Devil disappears amid terrible rattle. G303.17.2.7
• Devil disappears amid terrible stench. (Cf. G303.4.8.1.) G303.17.2.8
• Devil disappears in carriage drawn by four black horses. G303.17.2.9
• Why the devil has disappeared from the world. G303.17.3
• The devil dies of a nosebleed resulting from overheat. G303.17.3.1
• The devil dies when he is fastened in hell's door by his beard. G303.17.3.2
• Wolf eats the devil; therefore, devil no longer lives in the world. G303.17.3.3
• Devil has not been seen since he created the bramble. G303.17.3.4
• Satan punished in hell fire. G303.17.3.5
• Devil enters body of another. G303.18
• When devil leaves dead sinner's body, only bones remain. G303.18.0.1
• Devil enters body of dead boy. G303.18.1
• Devil in place of dead man in shroud (in dead man's skin). G303.18.2
• Devil blows skin off man who belongs to him and goes in the skin. G303.18.3
• Satan enters the Golden Calf. G303.18.4
• The devil takes the hindmost. (Cf. F1038.2.) G303.19
• The last belongs to the devil. G303.19.1
• Farmer has devil aid in reaping contest, loses his shadow when devil attempts to take hindmost. (Cf. K42.) G303.19.2
• Ways in which the devil kills people. G303.20
• Devil kills man with fiery sword. G303.20.1
• Devil destroys hunting party with terrible wind. G303.20.2
• Devil strikes man dead with iron bar. Two men are fighting and devil thus kills one of them. G303.20.3
• Devil strikes man dead with disease. G303.20.4
• The devil unpeels a bold woman's skin. G303.20.5
• Devil as black dog kills people. (Cf. G303.3.3.1.1.) G303.20.6
• Satan swallows victim. G303.20.7
• Satan injures man. G303.20.8
• Satan slays the first born of the Egyptians. G303.20.9
• The devil's money. G303.21
• Devil's money becomes ashes. G303.21.1
• Devil's money becomes manure. G303.21.2
• The devil's money is hot. G303.21.3
• The devil helps people. G303.22
• Devil repays a kindness: returns coat lent him and brings the one who had shown him kindness back home when imprisoned. G303.22.1
• Magician recovers lost object with devil's help. G303.22.2
• Student is helped by devil when he can answer three questions in rhyme. (Cf. H543.) G303.22.3
• Devil helps man place cart wheel when it becomes unfastened. G303.22.4
• Devil exhibits benevolence to impious people (to people who make an alliance with him: gives them riches, helps them in need). (Cf. M212.) G303.22.5
• Devil helps person to steal. When thief blesses himself he is forsaken by the devil. (Cf. K365.) G303.22.6
• Devil helps ugly man win wife. G303.22.7
• Devil helps journeyman win wager with master. G303.22.8
• Devil comes and works with man who continues to work after night. G303.22.9
• Devil serves knight faithfully. Devil saves his life and that of his wife. G303.22.10
• Devil as advocate of falsely condemned men. Carries off the judge. G303.22.11
• Devil promises help to mistreated apprentice if youth will meet him by night in lonely spot. G303.22.12
• Devil saves heretic from fire, until priest brings host. G303.22.13
• Devil as helper in battle. G303.22.14
• The devil and the ark. G303.23
• Devil gets into the ark by hiding in shadow of Noah's wife. G303.23.1
• The devil in church. G303.24
• Devil accuses congregation of sins. G303.24.1
• Devil shows priest long parchment roll of sins of congregation. G303.24.1.1
• Devil writes faults of man on goat skin. G303.24.1.2
• Devil writes down names of men on a hide in church. Woman laughs when she sees him. G303.24.1.3
• Devil stands in church door and writes down names of his own people on a sheepskin. G303.24.1.4
• Devil in church fills his sack with dissolute songs. G303.24.1.5
• Devil writes down all idle words spoken in church. His parchment is not long enough and he has to stretch it. G303.24.1.6
• Devil writes names of those who sleep in church. G303.24.1.7
• Devil disturbs people in the church. G303.24.1.7.1
• Devil writes down names of those who look backwards in church. G303.24.1.7.2
• Devil writes down names of those who whisper in church. G303.24.1.8
• The devil has two books – one book small for sins of clerics, erased by confession; the other large for unconfessed sins of lay folks. G303.24.1.9
• Devils worship host. (Cf. G303.16.5.) G303.24.2
• Devil vexing friars caused to repent by singing "Te sanctum dominum". G303.24.3
• Devil destroys church steeple. G303.24.4
• Devil as dog chews up Bibles, hymnbooks, church accounts in church. G303.24.5
• Miscellaneous devil motifs. G303.25
• Wolf is the devil's craftiest enemy. G303.25.1
• Devils fear St. Isaac. G303.25.2
• Devil likes negligence in men more than anything else. G303.25.3
• Devil cooks folk in kettle. G303.25.4
• Devil's chair in hell made from thrown-away nail parings. G303.25.5
• From the parings of man's nails devils make little caps for themselves. G303.25.5.1
• Old woman gives chickens to devils. They do not accept them. She gives them to priests and they eat them. G303.25.6
• Man shoots the devil with a silver gun. G303.25.7
• Devil shot with silver bullet. (Cf. D1385.4.) G303.25.7.1
• Devil follows corpse when a lawyer is buried. G303.25.8
• Devil follows corpse of a procurator. G303.25.8.1
• Ship with devil aboard sinks. G303.25.9
• Devil is blamed by monk for taking what does not belong to him. Devil denies accusation. G303.25.10
• Devil takes place of woman who went to spend night with a priest. G303.25.11
• A farmer who trades horses with the devil is cheated. G303.25.12
• Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
• The food and drink of the devils. G303.25.14
• Hideous food and drink at the night-spirits' (devils') feast. G303.25.14.1
• Devil roasts a toad. G303.25.14.2
• The devil's animals. G303.25.15
• Tailless fish as devil's hog. G303.25.15.1
• Possessions of the devil. G303.25.16
• Devil's pipe, gun or music. Man is blinded and gets such as gift or exchange from devil. G303.25.16.1
• The devils' dances and feasts. G303.25.17
• Devil as gentleman invites a traveler to the feast (wedding). (Cf. G303.7.1.2.2.) G303.25.17.1
• A musician engaged to play for the night-spirits (devils) dances. G303.25.17.2
• Devils arrange a wedding feast for a woman who hanged herself. G303.25.17.3
• Devil can touch man's body, not his soul. G303.25.18
• Parliament of devils. G303.25.19
• Troll as ogre. (For troll as underground spirit or mountain spirit see F455. For troll-woman see G200–G299, Witches.) G304
• Appearance of troll (ogre). (Cf. F455.2.) G304.1
• Troll in animal form. G304.1.1
• Troll as fox. G304.1.1.1
• Troll as hare. G304.1.1.2
• Troll as goose. G304.1.1.3
• Troll as crow. G304.1.1.4
• Troll in form of object. G304.1.2
• Troll in form of cloud. G304.1.2.1
• Troll in form of key. G304.1.2.2
• Many-headed troll. G304.1.3
• Characteristics of trolls. G304.2
• Fire-producing troll. G304.2.1
• Troll lights fingers. G304.2.1.1
• Troll stretches neck so long that fire comes from lips. G304.2.1.2
• Troll's food. G304.2.2
• Troll's food gives men strength. G304.2.2.1
• Special powers of troll. G304.2.3
• Locks spring open for troll. G304.2.3.1