26 motifs match “heathen”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: Jews eating with heathen. C246.1
• Tabu: drinking wine touched by hand of heathen. C272.1
• Heathen city surrounded by a yellow river, furious and impassable. F767.1
• Ground opens and swallows heathen idols. F948.1
• Devils dwell in heathen idols, as well as portraits and images. G303.8.14
• Guessing: whether more of a certain stone is above or below ground. A test set by heathen king for a saint. H527
• Heathen swallowed by earth. Proof of his belief. H1573.1.1
• Deduction: the one-eyed camel. A she-camel has passed, blind in one eye; on the one side she carries wine and on the other vinegar; two men lead her, one a heathen and the other a Jew. Solution: She is recognized as a she-camel by the footprints; she is blind because she feeds on only one side of the road; the wine dropping down has soaked into the earth; the vinegar makes bubbles; the heathen is not so careful in his manners as is the Jew. J1661.1.1
• Escape by substituting self for another condemned to die. Holy man substitutes self for deacon held by heathen. K528.2
• Covenant between heathen and Israelites. M201.0.2
• Prophecy: vicinity in which saint lost tooth will be deserted by heathen. M364.5
• Coming of saint (Christianity) prophesied by heathen. M364.7.2
• Druidic (heathen) baptism. P427.1.3
• Renegade priest punished by death for allowing heathen to defile the host. A knight slays the priest. Q222.1.1
• Punishment for taking heathen wives. Q243.4
• Christians crushed in cave where they take refuge from heathen. R315.2
• Mother sells her child to heathen sailors. S328
• Metamorphosis brought about by baptism. Monster born of union of heathen ruler and Christian maiden becomes a handsome boy on being baptized. V81.3
• Earthquake accompanies entrance of holy man into palace of heathen emperor. V222.9
• Heretical baptism. Heathen baptized into devil's possession. V322
• Hero renounces heaven because dead companions (heathen) are not there. V326
• Conversion to Christianity because the heathen gods prove to be less powerful. V331.1.3
• Baptism of heathen. V332
• Christian hero (saint) overthrows heathen idols. V356
• Heathen idols sink into earth up to their necks through power of saint. V356.2.1
• Heathen beats his god because of misfortune. (Cf. V123.) V381