56 motifs match “bishop”  ·  back to the chapters

• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. D2031.5
• Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls. E243
• Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
• Symbolic interpretation of points on a bishop's hat. H608.1
• What does God do? He brings low the proud and exalts the lowly (said by shepherd masking as bishop to king, who has exchanged places with him). (Cf. H562.) H797.1
• Test of worthiness for bishop: plowing without plowshare. H1573.2.3
• Bad associates bring death to bishop. Doctor loses his life for him and lawyer his soul. J452
• Bishop fond of lawsuits is ordered by king to settle them: bishop pleads for a few to be left so that he will have something to live for. J552.2.1
• "Eat small fish now if you wish larger ones later." Bishop refuses to eat small fish as he used to when an abbot. "Then I used small fish to catch big ones I have now!" J703.2
• With a silent person one is alone. Angered bishop will not answer when addressed. Relents when priest says, "Since there is no one here I may heed the call of Nature." J817.3
• Bishop orders priest to wear his beard and his robe "not too long and not too short." J1161.8.1
• Peasant preaches about bishop's amour. Bishop has instructed him to tell the truth and spare no one when he preaches. J1211.1
• Priest preaches about bishop's amour. Bishop has fined priest for incontinence. Priest hides and witnesses amorous intrigue between bishop and abbess, hearing bishop refer to the abbess's charms in biblical similes. Priest incorporates overheard references in his introduction to the Mass and is asked for an explanation. Bishop returns his fine. J1211.1.1
• Consecration of the ignorant priest. A bishop disgusted with priest's ignorance says, "Who consecrated you as priest?" – "You did, the time I gave you ten florins." J1263.1.2
• Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
• Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" J1265.1
• Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish. J1265.2
• Transmutation of the quail. Bishop brought quail on Friday orders them cooked. Blamed. If he can turn bread into the body of the Lord why can he not turn quail into fish? J1269.5
• The capon and the hen. Bishop refuses a favor to an abbess on the ground that he does not love her. Abbess: "I can well believe that. The capon never loves the hen." J1269.6
• Bishop and prince. Peasant tells bishop, who rides by with forty horses, that he wonders if St. Kilian at Würzburg is also riding with forty horses. Bishop excuses extravagance by saying that he is also a prince and that it is the prince, not the bishop, who is using the horses. "If the prince should become a fool, what would the bishop do then?" J1289.2
• Person asks: "Whose fool are you?" Answer: "I am the Bishop of Durham's fool; whose fool are you?" J1369.4
• Absurdity of entrusting military mission to bishop. Courtier rebukes king by asking that he be given an ecclesiastical post. J1536.1
• Priest forbidden to have female servant ostentatiously washes his own clothes. Bishop reverses the order. J1539.1
• The testament of the dog. The owner of a dog has him given Christian burial. The bishop thereupon pretends that the dog has left the church a large legacy. J1607
• The archbishop's wife and family. Fool asks what he is to talk about when guests arrive. Is told: "Their wives and family." He asks the archbishop about his family. (Cf. J2461.2.) J1747
• Bishop struck for breaking the peace. At a wedding after a period of silent prayer the bishop begins an antiphony. The fools walks up and strikes the bishop: "You have made this shouting in the church." J1823.2
• Numskull thinks the bishop's snoring is his death rattle. He strikes at a fly on the bishop's nose because it seems to be killing the bishop. J1833
• The four-footed bishop. A fool finding a nun in bed with a bishop and not seeing her face concludes that the bishop must have four feet and so announces it. J2283
• Numskull believes that he is married to a man. Two men's hands joined in fun with words "I marry you." Fool thinks that he must get a bishop to annul the marriage. J2323
• A beggar tells the bishop how to stay warm. For a gulden he tells him that he should wear all his clothes when he goes horseback in winter. K151
• The trickster with painted member. The father wants his daughter's child to be a bishop. K1398
• Incognito princess travels as bishop (monk). K1812.8.2
• Bishop disguised as priest. K1826.5.1
• Sham bishop. K1961.4
• Girl falsely accuses bishop. K2111.6
• Treacherous bishop. K2281
• Bishop foretells birth of saint. M364.7.3
• Prefect, cursed by bishop, dies of fish-bone stuck in his throat. N339.12
• Old woman gives her only cow believing she would receive a hundred in return from God. A bishop hearing of her faith sends her a hundred cows. Q21.1
• Cobbler gives new pair of shoes to poor boy and says: "You can pay me when you become archbishop." Generously rewarded many years later. Q42.9
• Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.5.3
• Birth of child prevented until girl confesses slander. She has accused a bishop of fathering the child. Q559.5.1
• Magic paralysis as punishment for scorning of bishop remitted. Q573.2
• Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop. T323.1
• Ruler forces bishop to ordain ignorant priest. U41
• Priest has no friends until he becomes bishop: then they flock to him. U63
• Sinner's tearmarks on written confession cause bishop to pardon his sins. V21.6
• Oil bursts from ground as saint is made bishop. V222.5
• Saint causes gluttonous reptile to leap from saint's body into bishop's throat and then return as proof of bishop's injustice. V229.2.11.1
• Baptismal water vanishes before Aryan bishop. V325
• Children envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold reward. V415
• Bishop exchanges places with prisoner so as to have him return to his mother. W16
• The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." X111.13
• Bishop willing to admit castrated man as monk: wishes all were in the same condition. X457.1
• Lie: mice consecrate bishop. X1226.1