68 motifs match “cleric”  ·  back to the chapters

• Horses refuse to remain with owner who has been cursed by clerics. B133.4.1
• Horses travel between clerics without guidance. B151.1.1.0.1
• Cleric goes with saint whom his cow follows. B159.3
• Animals honor saint (cleric). B251.2
• Fly habitually buzzes when cleric returns from matins. B251.2.4
• Fly, wren, fox live with cleric. B256.10
• Whale raises back so that voyaging clerics can land to celebrate. B256.12
• Animal leads cleric to holy place. B563.4
• Clerics' voyage unsuccessful because they sailed in boats of skin. C841.0.1
• Transformation into a cleric (monk). D25.2
• Cleric's tongueless bell rings. D1601.18.1.1
• Saint declares that first man to come to certain place shall be his successor. Young cleric comes and is chosen. D1812.5.0.7.2
• Imprisoned cleric comes to answer saint's prayers in ritual. D2074.2.5.1
• Saint returns from dead to exonerate cleric. E376.1
• Clerics mistaken for fairies. F234.2.4.1
• Fairies hate clerics. F399.3
• Clerics catch fish with regularity. F986.1
• Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowning. F1088.3.1
• Devil appears to saint (cleric). G303.6.2.9
• Devil tempts cleric (hermit). G303.9.4.4
• 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
• Cleric as solver of riddles. H561.8
• Enigmatic statement betrays incest. (Cf. T411.) Woman, recognizing cleric as her son by her father (Fiachna), gives him a drink of milk and says, "I give drink to my brother; he is Fiachna's son, he is Fiachna's grandson; his mother is Fiachna's daughter." The son's reply shows that he understands the situation. H582.2.1
• Repartee concerning clerical abuses. J1263
• Repartee based on clerical ignorance. J1263.1
• Repartee concerning clerical venality. (Cf. J1192, J1263.1.2.) J1263.2
• Repartee concerning clerical luxury. J1263.4
• Repartee concerning clerical incontinence. J1264
• Not of legitimate birth. A cleric is asked whether he is of legitimate birth ("de legitimo thoro"). "No, I am not from that place; I am from Schmich." J1803.1
• Town crier is frightened by the voice of a cleric robbing a grave. K335.0.8
• Disguise as churchman (cleric). K1826
• Cleric as helper. N846
• In fear of clerics pagans flee into fairy mounds. P426.0.1
• Clerics exempted from military service. P551.3
• Clerics fast against God for revelation. P623.0.1.1
• Neglect of clerical duties punished. Q223.13
• Mutinous clerics expelled in shapes of swine. (Cf. Q551.3.2.) Q226.2
• Debtor clerics forbidden churchly offices. (Cf. Q271.) Q499.5
• Cleric tempts self among beautiful women, lives chastely. Q537.2
• Boy who threw stones at clerics killed by thrown stone. (Cf. Q227.) Q582.7
• Christ sends message to voyaging clerics. V211.10.1
• Angel is form of cleric. V231.4
• Clerical virtues and vices. V460
• Clerical virtue. V461
• Chastity as clerical virtue. V461.3
• Submission as clerical virtue. V461.4
• Truthfulness as clerical virtue. V461.4.1
• Extended meditation as clerical virtue. V461.5
• Clerical virtue of absolute faith. Man captured by robbers is so confident that God will protect him that he is saved. V461.7
• Asceticism: cleric practices continual genuflexion. V462.4.1
• Cross vigil. Cleric stands with hands extended in shape of cross. V462.4.2
• 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 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
• Cleric surrenders life that body may consecrate land. V463.1
• Clerical vices. V465
• Marriage of clerics. V465.1.1.2
• Clerical vows. V470
• Taking clerical vows heals disease. V471
• Clerical vows because of disappointment in love. V472
• Renunciation of clerical vows. V475