34 motifs match “ceremony”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of wedding ceremony. A1555.1
• Tabu: playing at marriage ceremony. C167
• Boy who plays marriage-game finds he has actually been married to a spirit (invisible during ceremony). C167.1
• Eight handfuls of food only to be eaten during ceremony. C231.5
• Magic results produced by religious ceremony. (Cf. G224.5, V70.) D1766
• Other religious ceremony as magic cure. Sign of cross, prayer, etc. D2161.4.9.1
• Evil spirit exorcised by religious ceremony. (Cf. V10ff.) Holy name, sign of cross, prayer, etc. D2176.3.2
• Protection during ghost-laying ceremony. E443.0.2
• Marriage (ceremony) to a ghost. E495.2
• Exorcising fairies. Fairies disappear when some name or ceremony of the Christian Church is used. F382
• Water-spirit flees if holy name, ceremony, or blessed object is used. F420.5.3.4
• Witch's power received by altering religious ceremony. (Cf. G224.1.) G224.5
• Parody of church ceremony at witch's sabbath. G243.2
• Witch exorcised by use of religious ceremony, object, or charm. (Cf. D2176.3.2.) G271.2
• The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. J1191.3
• Repeating the ceremony. Fool told to repeat part of the ceremony at baptism persists absurdly in repeating every remark. J2498
• Trickster admits defeat: enemy and friends invited to fort for ceremony and then attacked. K2366.1
• Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) Q557.7
• Betrothal ceremony. T61.4
• At betrothal ceremony both parties drink out of the loving-cup. T61.4.2
• Conduct of bridal couple before ceremony. T134
• Wedding ceremony. T135
• Sword and shield as proxy at wedding ceremony. T135.3.1
• Groom's sword makes vermillion mark on bride's forehead as wedding ceremony. T135.4
• Wedding ceremony in church. T135.9
• Bride and groom drink from same cup as part of ceremony. T135.11
• Breaking a glass during wedding ceremony. T135.15
• Gifts for bridal couple by a special ceremony with the bride on a bridebench. T136.4.1
• Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride. T137.3
• One year to elapse between ceremony and consummation of marriage. T165.2
• Ceremony of sacrifice. V18
• Prayer as ceremony. V58
• Ceremony of the proclamation of a Buddha. V88
• Trickster breaks up Jewish marriage ceremony and seduces the bride. (Cf. K1371.) X613