38 motifs match “hermit”  ·  back to the chapters

• Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. B11.6.5
• Grateful hyena leads lost hermit from wilderness as reward for his help. B380.1
• Magic power of hermit (saint, yogi). (Cf. P426.2.) D1713
• Soul of hermit who fasts to death for worldly fame would be damned but for past good deeds. E754.4
• Hermit's hut at border of otherworld. F147.2
• Devil as a hermit. G303.3.1.8.1
• Devil tempts cleric (hermit). G303.9.4.4
• Devils leave hermit who turns other cheek when struck. G303.16.15
• Hermit explains why anger is sin. J153.2
• Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just. J225.0.1
• Angel explains to hermit why God lets a sinner die in peace and have big funeral while holy hermit is slain by a wild beast. J225.0.1.1
• Angel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutable. J225.0.3
• Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
• Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil. K943
• Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.) K1625
• Repentant nurse disguises as hermit. K1837.3
• "Holy" hermit surprised in amorous intrigue. K2064
• Self-righteous hermit must do penance. He has said of a condemned man that he deserves his punishment. L435.1
• Hermit curses men who kill his pet bear and all the men die. M411.8.2
• Hermit as helper. N843
• King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd). P16.1
• Hermit. P426.2
• Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly reward. Q34
• Hermit as reward for austerities hears voice of God. (Cf. Q34.) Q144.1
• Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber. Q226.1
• Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit. Q553.2
• Hermit rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N843, R169.2.) R131.10
• Woman disguised as hermit rescues abandoned child. (Cf. K1837.3.) R131.10.1
• Boys rescued from beasts by hermit. (Cf. N843, R131.10.) R169.2
• Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.) T93.2
• Man becomes a hermit after his wife's death. T211.5
• Hermit having rebuked youth falls himself when exposed to the same sin. U231
• Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. V113.2
• Saints as hermits. V226
• "He that asks shall receive." Hermit wants to prove truth of these words of the Gospel and asks for the hand of the princess. Performs the difficult task imposed upon him. V316.1
• Unbeliever loses argument with hermit. V351.2
• Man becomes hermit when he realizes selfishness of his beloved's love. (Cf. T93.2.) V472.1
• Hermit must get cat to kill rats in hunt, cow to give cat milk, etc. Z49.12