Religion

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• Vision of sacrament in form of young child. V39.4
• Sacred image appears on host. Woman who has vowed not to use make-up or ornaments thus rewarded. (Cf. V35.1.2.) V39.5
• Host given as pledge to keep one's word. V39.6
• Voice from grave asks that it be opened. Corpse spits out host because he has missed confession. V39.7
• Sick men die and go to hell because they hesitate to take sacrament. V39.8
• Woman who eats before communion cannot swallow the wafer. V39.9
• Mass. V40
• Masses work miracles. V41
• Imprisoned miner kept alive by masses performed by his wife. V41.1
• Hearing masses causes triumph in tournament. Angel takes absent knight's place. He is delayed by going to mass. V41.2
• Masses release souls from hell (purgatory). V42
• Holy man has his own mass. (Cf. F1011.1, V29.3.) When upbraided for not coming to mass, he hangs his coat on a sunbeam. V43
• Faithful attendance at mass outweighs evil deeds. V44
• Mass said for dead; they arise and say "Amen". V45
• Pebble put in box each time mass is heard. V46
• The canonical hours. V48
• Mass – miscellaneous motifs. V49
• Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.) V49.1
• Angel holds mass in church on the day that the king absents himself for sake of hunting trip. V49.2
• Prayer. V50
• Learning to pray. V51
• Man who does not know how to pray so holy that he walks on water. V51.1
• Worldly-minded learn to pray by thinking of their usual business. V51.2
• Woman shows that the Lord's Prayer is the best. V51.3
• Woman taught that it is better to pray before Christ's image than before a saint's. V51.4
• "Beatus" best prayer for saving condemned souls. (Cf. E754.1.1.) V51.5
• Miraculous power of prayer. V52
• Man saved from lechery through prayer. V52.1
• Continuous prayer sustains man through frightful vigil. V52.2
• Prayer before battle brings victory. V52.3
• Objects supplied through prayer. V52.4
• Prayer restores shattered vessel. V52.5
• Mariners saved from maelstrom through prayer. V52.6
• Prayer at saint's flagstone averts trouble. V52.7
• Prayer brings death to enemy. V52.8
• Prayer for protection on journey to land of dead. V52.9
• Prayers of devout woman free husband from death and imprisonment. V52.10
• Prayer of sinner changes his color from black into white. V52.11
• The clever brothers work, the foolish brother only prays; finally he acquires all the property. V52.12
• Saint's Paternoster outweighs ox. V52.13
• Reciting martyrology will prevent decomposition of body of one who recites it. V52.14
• Prayer said by saint into his right hand restores displaced eye of opponent. V52.15
• Prayers of family comfort prisoner. V53
• Prayer unfastens boy's fetters. (Cf. R211.) V53.1
• Man worships devil's image in order to secure advancement. V55
• Purpose of prayer. V57
• Prayer for good harvest. V57.1
• Prayer for shower of gold. V57.2
• Prayer on special occasions. V57.3
• Prayer as ceremony. V58
• Prayers at sunrise and sunset. V58.1
• Prayer with face toward east. V58.2
• Repeated circumambulations with prayer. V58.3
• Handwashing before prayer. V58.4
• Prayer shawl. V58.5
• Prayers answered – miscellaneous. V59
• Skill in theft granted as answer to prayer. V59.1
• Funeral rites. V60
• Stones sold at funeral wakes. V60.1
• Funeral rites by druids. V60.2
• Various ways of disposing of dead. V61
• Dead placed on boat. V61.1
• Dead burned on pyre. (Cremation.) V61.2
• Coffin buried upright. V61.3
• Hero buried in armor, standing with face toward land of enemies. (Cf. V67.) V61.3.0.1
• Person buried in standing position with friends about him. V61.3.0.2
• Man buried upright beneath kitchen stairway in order that he may watch his family. V61.3.0.3
• Head buried one place, body another. V61.4
• Corpse buried face down. (Cf. S139.2.2.3.1.) V61.4.1
• Dismemberment before burial. V61.4.2
• King buried in his war car. V61.5
• Christian buried in stone coffin. V61.6
• Christian buried in wooden coffin. V61.7
• Burial in grave-mound. V61.8
• Chiefs buried in hidden caves. V61.8.1
• Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters. V61.9
• Corpses exposed in tree. V61.10
• Aversion to burial in "strange city". V61.11
• Restrictions on burial. V62
• Funeral rites forbidden. V62.1
• Only usurers to carry body of usurer to grave. V62.2
• Bones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30.) V63
• Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial. V64
• Shipwrecked each get a piece of the chief's gold ring in order to have gold with them in death. V64.1
• Commemoration of death. V65
• Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death. V65.1
• Drinking festival in memory of the dead. V65.2
• Wedding and funeral festival on same time. V65.3
• Professional mourning. V65.4
• Funeral song sung over dead. V65.4.1
• Funeral games. V65.5
• Funeral sermon. V66
• Witty funeral sermon. Priest having nothing good to say about man damns him with faint praise or gives anecdotes with unfavorable implications. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1.) V66.1
• Accompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.) V67
• Ornaments (arms, chariots) buried with hero. V67.1
• Shoes buried with the dead. V67.2
• Treasure buried with the dead. V67.3
• King buried with immense treasure in the ground of an artificially dried river; later the normal course of the river is restored. V67.3.1
• Men buried with dead chief. V67.4
• Captain buried with his crew. V67.4.1
• Animals buried with the dead. V67.5
• Preparations for burial. V68
• Dead washed (in river). V68.1
• Dead washed and hair combed. V68.2
• Dying hero wants to be buried in the clothes of his brother who killed him. V68.3
• Dead is undressed. V68.4
• Dead not to be buried naked. V68.4.1
• Dead rubbed with red paint. V68.5
• Funeral rites – miscellaneous. V69
• All dead are buried after battle. V69.1
• Hero buried as unknown merchant in foreign country. V69.2
• Religious feasts and fasts. V70
• The first day of summer. V70.1
• Festival of Beltane (= May Day). V70.1.1
• Whitsuntide. V70.2
• Midsummer. (Cf. A1535.3.) V70.3
• Feast of Saint John the Baptist. V70.3.1
• Harvest-festival. V70.4
• Festival of Samhain (Hallowe'en, Tara [Temair]). V70.5
• Festival of Imbolg (Brigit, Candlemas). V70.6
• Feast of the new moon. V70.7
• Festival of Cenn (Crom) Cruaich. V70.8
• Sabbath. V71
• Jewish automaton will not work on Saturday. V71.1
• Manna does not descend on Sabbath. V71.1.1
• Misfortune ascribed to breaking Sabbath. V71.2
• Various events, from creation to Resurrection, that occurred on Sabbath. V71.3
• Christmas. V72
• Little Christmas. V72.1
• Fasts. V73
• Christ in the desert overcomes devil by fasting. V73.0.1
• Fast to prevent pestilence. V73.1
• Fast improves health. V73.2
• Saint causes two youths to be fed with the best food, says one is doomed to go to hell, the other will practice austerity in his old age. V73.3
• Fasting to secure a prosperous journey. V73.4
• Fasting on "Golden Fridays" as charm against certain misfortunes. V73.5
• Lent. V73.6
• Christ's forty-days' fast called "His Lent". V73.6.1
• Saint remains silent during Lent by holding stone in mouth. V73.6.2
• Holy man eats pork and beef in Lent because pig is raised on milk, ox on grass; but refuses to eat cake because it contains weevils (live meat). V73.6.3
• Easter. V75
• Passover. V75.1
• Religious services – miscellaneous. V80
• Baptism. V81
• Girl having been stolen by mountain-folk must be baptized anew. V81.1
• Tails fall off mountain spirits when they are baptized. V81.2
• Metamorphosis brought about by baptism. Monster born of union of heathen ruler and Christian maiden becomes a handsome boy on being baptized. V81.3
• Baptism of infants. V81.4
• Sea bath as purificatory rite. V81.5
• Circumcision. (Cf. F81.3.) V82
• Hymns. V83
• Excommunication. V84
• Lightning strikes excommunicated person who enters church. V84.1
• Priest shows power of excommunication over host. It turns black. V84.2
• Pirate excommunicated, goes on pilgrimage as penance. V84.3
• Religious pilgrimages. (Cf. V84.3.) V85
• Sign of the Cross. V86
• Sign of cross protects from injury. V86.1
• Sign of cross prevents child from being stolen from cradle. V86.1.1
• Sign of cross prevents garment from burning. V86.1.2
• Man dies because he has killed a man with the sign of the cross on his forehead. V86.1.3
• Martyr with sign of cross on his heart. (Cf. V254.3.) V86.2
• Punishment for profane use of the cross. Drunkard kisses cross, thinking it is a bottle of wine. V86.3
• Miraculous manifestations to scoffers of the cross. V86.4
• Praying with arms extended so as to form a cross. V86.5
• Loaf bursts in oven because sign of cross has not been made over it. V86.6
• The seven significances of the sign of the cross. V86.7
• Christening. V87
• Ceremony of the proclamation of a Buddha. V88
• Accidental calling on god's name held to outweigh a life of wickedness. V91
• "Our Lady's Tumbler." A tumbler, turned monk, dances while others chant psalms. He is praising God in the only way he knows. V92
• Religious dancing. (Cf. A1542.) V93
• Ritual bathing. V96
• Taking bath in a sacred river (Ganges). V96.1
• Study of Tora as religious service. V97
• Religious edifices and objects. V100
• Religious buildings. V110
• Churches. V111
• Visit to certain church protects from drowning on pilgrimage. (Cf. D1384, D1388.) V111.1
• Stones for building church (chapel) miraculously supplied. (Cf. D931.0.1.) V111.2
• Place where a church must be built miraculously indicated. V111.3
• Birds indicate the site where a church is to be built by making a model of the structure on the spot. V111.3.1
• Divine person points out site for church. V111.3.2
• Temples. V112
• Ark of the temple. V112.0.1
• Spirit huts. V112.1
• Mosques. V112.2
• Synagogues. V112.3
• Shrines. (Cf. C51.1.) V113
• Miracles at shrine. V113.0.1
• Vow to visit shrine. V113.0.2
• Cripples at shrine frightened and run away without crutches. V113.1
• Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. V113.2
• Sacred groves. V114
• Sacred groves of druids. V114.1
• Church bells. V115
• Church bell sunk in river (sea). (Cf. F993.) V115.1
• Sunken bell travels on sea bottom. V115.1.1
• Raising sunken church bell. V115.1.2
• Sunken church bell cannot be raised. V115.1.3