55 motifs match “ascetic”  ·  back to the chapters

• Elephants look after ascetic in jungle. B530.2
• Birds mock ascetic's devotions. B787
• Tabu: disturbing austerities of an ascetic. C94.9
• Transformation: normal man to ascetic. D96
• Magic object received from ascetic. D812.14
• Magic power through ascetic practices. D1733.3
• What religious ascetic sees as gold, ordinary people see as scorpions. D1825.8
• Field turns to gold after ascetic plows it. D2102.2.1
• Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives. F771.11
• Stream becomes hot in which saint performs his ascetic devotions. F932.3
• Ascetic carries woman in his hair, but she has two lovers in her cloak and outwits him. F1034.2.1
• Devil as ascetic. G303.3.1.8.2
• Which is best, domestic or ascetic life? With good wife domestic life is best. H659.22
• Ascetic gives directions to hero on quest. H1233.3.1
• Ascetic imitates Brahmin's practices. Brahmin goes to heaven, ascetic to hell. J2415.5
• Father tells son that he has been scratched by "hairy rascals" (monkeys). Son attacks hairy ascetics. J2484
• Women escape from enemy's camp disguised as ascetics. K521.9
• The lovely ascetic (girl in man's clothes) wins love of a rich woman. K1322.1
• Disguise as ascetic. K1826.2
• False ascetic in partnership with tiger shares his prey. K2058.2
• Rich woman, when her advances are repulsed by an ascetic (really a girl in man's clothes) accuses her of adulterous assault. K2113.2
• Villain disguised as ascetic or nun. K2285
• Ascetic as villain. K2285.1
• Begging ascetics beg alms of their own mother. N735.1
• Reward for service of god, hero, or ascetic for a period. Q20.1
• Asceticism rewarded. (Cf. V462.) Q39.1
• Hospitality to ascetic rewarded. Q45.3
• Methods of ascetics. T302
• Ascetic successfully tempted: kills son born in consequence. T338.1
• Downfall of ascetic (saint). V229.20
• Asceticism. V462
• Kingship renounced to become an ascetic. V462.0.1
• Since salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed useless. V462.0.2
• Husband abandons wife to become ascetic. V462.0.3
• Murderer becomes ascetic. V462.0.4
• Maintaining silence as ascetic practice. V462.1
• Ascetic fasting. V462.2
• Ascetic faster increases his sufferings by placing food and drink before himself. V462.2.1
• Death from ascetic devotions. V462.2.3
• Ascetic weeping. V462.3
• Asceticism: allowing self no repose. V462.4
• Asceticism: cleric practices continual genuflexion. V462.4.1
• Ascetic cleric tortures his flesh. V462.5
• Ascetic cleric prays to become diseased. V462.5.0.1
• Ascetic cleric wears hair garment. V462.5.1
• Ascetic cleric sleeps (prays) with wet sheet (mantle) about him. V462.5.1.2
• Ascetic cleric sleeps on stone. V462.5.2
• Ascetic cleric avoids listening to music. V462.6
• Ascetic cleric never smiles. V462.7
• Ascetic immersion. V462.8
• Ascetic cleric leads mendicant life. V462.9
• Ascetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's back. V462.10
• Ascetic cleric renounces world (to become a herder). V462.11
• Evil ascetic misuses magic powers obtained through religious meditation. V462.13
• Boy takes twelve years to wash off ascetic's dirt. V462.14