24 motifs match “leper”  ·  back to the chapters

• Spring breaks forth through power of saint at place where leper pulls out clump of rushes. A941.5.3
• Transformation into leper. D27
• Leper controls winds. D2142.0.4
• Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
• Wisdom from dream: the leper with the cup of water. Man in dream willing to receive sacrament from unworthy priest. J157.1
• Amazonian woman disguised as leper seduces and binds enemies one by one. K778.2
• Seduction by posing as leper. K1315.11
• Leper intercepts letter and takes paramour's place with princess. K1317.2
• Disguise as leper. K1818.1
• Leper (beggar) laid in queen's bed. She is thus incriminated. K2112.2
• Leper as villain. K2276
• Disguise as leper to enter enemy's camp. (Cf. K1818.1.) K2357.11
• Leper hero. L112.7.1
• Curse: man (poet) to kiss a leper. M438.1
• Leper as helper. N864
• Lepers. P162
• Naked leper. P162.1
• Boy risks life to carry leper across stream. Leper is Christ in disguise. Q25.1
• Humiliation through kissing a leper as punishment. Q499.1.1
• Woman consorts with leper. T232.1
• Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm. V39.3
• Christ disguised as leper. V211.2.1.1
• Leper cured by the kiss of a saint. V221.3.1
• Lepers as sacred persons. V293