65 motifs match “mass”  ·  back to the chapters

• Snakes have mass. B253.1
• Mass transformation of wedding party to marble statues, etc. D231.2.1
• Disenchantment by prayer (mass) of Pope. D781
• Holy water and mass prevent demons alighting on grave. (Cf. D1242.1.2.) D1385.15
• Magic produced by saying mass. D1766.5
• Masses used along with other magic for cursing. D1766.5.1
• Magic articles made during mass. D1766.5.2
• Ghosts punish intruders into mass (procession) of ghosts. E242
• Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.) E415.3
• Ghost laid by saying masses. E443.2.1
• The dead man: "Sell my golden teeth and pay for a mass for my soul." E443.2.1.1
• Mass (church service) of the dead. Held at midnight. E492
• Enormous pack of dogs in wild hunt. Overcome people by their mass. E501.4.1.1
• Knockers hold midnight mass deep in mines on Christmas Eve. (Cf. E492.) F456.1.2.3.1
• Well floods when gazed upon until mass is said over it. F933.7
• King of cats killed by glowing mass of iron thrown by saint. F981.7
• Devil interrupts mass by pretended battle. G303.9.9.2
• Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. G303.16.16
• "Stay at church till mass is finished": counsel proved wise by experience. Delay saves youth from death. J21.17
• Priest preaches about bishop's amour. Bishop has fined priest for incontinence. Priest hides and witnesses amorous intrigue between bishop and abbess, hearing bishop refer to the abbess's charms in biblical similes. Priest incorporates overheard references in his introduction to the Mass and is asked for an explanation. Bishop returns his fine. J1211.1.1
• Priest may use his own mother's mass money. At his mother's funeral a boy takes the money laid on the altar for masses. When the priest objects, the boy says, "When your mother dies you may take the money too." J1261.6
• Priest who never reads mass. Peasants complain of his ignorance. He says that they stand so close to him that he is afraid they might memorize and then pay no attention to his reading of it. J1263.1.3
• Rushing through the mass. Two priests apply for the position of chaplain and argue as to which one can say the mass more quickly. One clinches the argument saying: "You could not say it more quickly than I because I don't read half of it!" J1263.1.3.1
• Brotherly love and patience both dead. A man failing to receive alms in a village, rings the bell for mass. He tells the sexton that he is ringing because of the death of brotherly love. The sexton rings another bell. It is for the death of the other man's patience. J1633
• The hunter's mass. A count instructs his chaplain to read a hunter's mass (i.e., a short one). The chaplain searches the prayerbook in vain for a hunter's mass. J2474
• Respite from death until mass is said. K551.1.2
• Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) K1011
• Virgin substitutes in tournament. A knight hears masses so long that he absents himself from a tournament. The Virgin takes his place. K1841.2
• Miser goes to mass before committing usury. K2097
• Treacherous priests prolong mass to let enemy destroy city. K2354
• The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2
• Sons break promise to have masses for father's soul. "If he is in Hell it will do him no good; if he is in Heaven he won't need it; and if he is in Purgatory he can purge himself." M256.1
• Amasser of largest fortune to be king. P11.4.2
• Punishment for wholesale massacre of tribe. Q211.11
• Punishment for neglect of mass. Q223.7
• Virgin Mary appears to lady who neglected to hear mass. Woman awakens from trance to find piece of taper the Virgin took from her. Q223.7.1
• Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses. Q521.6
• Punishment: man transformed to a mass of worms. Q551.3.2.5
• Mass of sand advances like a tidal wave upon city. Q552.14.3
• Prisoner massacred. R51.4
• Jealous king causes massacre of handsome young captives. T257.6
• Wicked woman unable to endure presence of host at mass. V39.2
• Mass. V40
• Masses work miracles. V41
• Imprisoned miner kept alive by masses performed by his wife. V41.1
• Hearing masses causes triumph in tournament. Angel takes absent knight's place. He is delayed by going to mass. V41.2
• Masses release souls from hell (purgatory). V42
• Holy man has his own mass. (Cf. F1011.1, V29.3.) When upbraided for not coming to mass, he hangs his coat on a sunbeam. V43
• Faithful attendance at mass outweighs evil deeds. V44
• Mass said for dead; they arise and say "Amen". V45
• Pebble put in box each time mass is heard. V46
• Mass – miscellaneous motifs. V49
• Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.) V49.1
• Angel holds mass in church on the day that the king absents himself for sake of hunting trip. V49.2
• Virgin Mary has dissolute monk buried in consecrated ground: his only mass is that of the Virgin. V255
• Virgin gives private mass to devout lady unable to attend. V255.2
• A Christianized Jew becomes a priest. During Mass, he stabs the consecrated host, blood flows (cf. C55, J1261.2, V30). He kills the other priest who saw him commit the sacrilege, and before killing, forces him to renounce his faith. A miracle exposes the murderer. V364
• Charity rewarded above prayer or hearing of masses. V410.1
• Parson and sexton at mass. Parson intones instructions to the sexton (cook) as a part of the mass. X441
• "I can't hear you." Rector confesses his sacristan: "Have you drunk the wine designated for the mass?" – "I can't hear you." Exchange of places. Sacristan asks rector: "Have you kissed my wife?" – "Really, I can't hear you." X441.1
• Whistling at mass. Bell breaks and priest's patron whistles in place of ringing the bell at mass. X442
• Where have you been, goose? – In the fields. – What have you in your beak? – A knife. – etc. (Tile, water, ox, firewood, old woman, friars, mass, shirt.) Z39.4
• Seven masses necessary to free soul from hell. Z71.5.6.6
• Symbolism of colors in mass vestments. Z140.3
• Symbolism of the mass. Z176