31 motifs match “monastery”  ·  back to the chapters

• Saint's bell lands at place where monastery is to be founded. D1314.4.0.1
• Submarine monastery. (Cf. F725.6.) F133.3
• Bell brought from monastery under water. F725.6
• Rainbow stretches from monastery to heaven at saint's death. F960.2.2
• Witch lives in monastery. (Cf. G243.) G235
• Quest to submarine monastery. H1287
• Man shows his patience by accepting blow in face with stool thrown by his superior in monastery. H1553.4
• Monk goes to wilderness to escape work on material things. Finds that he must work to live and returns to monastery. J215.4
• Judgment Day a long way off. Thief told by monk that he must return stolen cloth on Judgment Day "If I have so long a period of grace, I should like to take the whole monastery." J1261.7
• The abbot burns his mouth. Says that he is crying because so many have left the monastery. J1478.1
• Thief becomes monk in order to rob monastery. K311.4
• Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia). K1837.7
• Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards. K2312.2
• Prophecy: saint's monastery will be persecuted. M364.1
• Anchor catching in oratory of submarine monastery leads to adventures. N786
• Refugee entertained in holy place (church, monastery, etc.). P322.3
• Woman disguised as monk enters monastery. P426.3.3
• Husband forgiven for having killed jealous wife: builds monastery and becomes monk in it. Q171.1.1
• Monk neglecting to prostrate self at canonical hours expelled from monastery by saint and dies on seventh day. Q223.13.1
• Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Q414.0.3.1
• Penance: adulteress masks as monk and lives chastely in monastery. (Cf. Q241.) Q537.1
• Punishment: death from unknown disease before end of three days for having obtained food by force from monastery. Q551.6.0.2
• Peasant wishes to exchange places with monks. Thinks they lead a very easy life. One night's experience in the monastery makes him change his mind. U119.2
• Monk leaves monastery when he sees a devil there tempting brethren. Returns when in the world he sees scores of devils tempting the people. U230.0.1
• The bad custom in the world: the young die as well as the old. Hence youth enters monastery. U251
• Cat ceases catching rats as soon as he is given a home in a monastery. Thus with lazy priests. U271
• Confession of monk who intended to rob monastery brings forgiveness. Eventually elected prior. V21.3
• Hell as a monastery – the devil, abbot; sinners, monks. V118.0.1
• Monastery on otherworld island. V118.1
• Subaqueous monastery. V118.2
• Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten. X214