231 motifs match “priest” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God in three forms: gecho, shark, or priest. A132.0.1.2
• God represented as priest. A137.13
• Priest stamps on stone to prove truth of pope; print is still visible. A972.1.2
• Origin of priesthood (shamanism, etc.) A1654
• Origin of priests. A1654.1
• Why fig tree is chief priest of the trees. A2777.1
• Priest of snakes. B252.3
• Tabu: offending devil. A smith or priest continually insults the devil's statue or picture (cf. C13). The devil brings the offender into dangerous situation (suspicion of theft or murder), and saves him miraculously when he promises never again to abuse the devil's likeness. C45
• Tabu: discourtesy toward priest (rabbi, etc.). C94.1.3
• Tabu: opening too much of magic box at a time. A priest gives a prince a sealed packet which he is to open in time of distress. He must open only one portion at a time. C321.1
• Tabus of priests. C573
• Magic invisibility of priests. D1981.5
• Resuscitation by holy man (priest, etc.). E121.5
• Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls. E243
• Ghost drives priest into oven. E264
• Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil. E341.5
• Unquiet dead sinner taken to priest for absolution. E411.0.2
• Priest's concubine cannot rest in grave. E411.2.1
• Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.) E415.3
• Revenant as priest or parson. (Cf. E338.5, E417.) E425.2.3
• Ghost laid by confessor to priest. E443.2.3
• Ghost laid by priest (minister). E443.2.4
• Ghost steals collar of priest. Evil therefore befalls priest. E593.1
• Ghost steals book from priest. E593.2
• Priest bans spirit with sword. (Cf. D1081.) F405.1
• Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
• Priestly exorcism for witch. G271.2.4
• Devils are created from sinful priests. G303.1.6
• Devil in form of priest. G303.3.1.8
• Devils disappear when priest blesses bread. G303.16.2.3.3
• Devil prevented from revenge by pious priest. G303.16.11.2
• Priest chases devil away. G303.16.14.1
• Priest separates girl from devil's claws. G303.16.14.1.1
• Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. G303.16.16
• Devil and sinful priest disappear amid blaze of fire in the river. G303.17.2.4
• Devil saves heretic from fire, until priest brings host. G303.22.13
• Devil shows priest long parchment roll of sins of congregation. G303.24.1.1
• Old woman gives chickens to devils. They do not accept them. She gives them to priests and they eat them. G303.25.6
• Devil takes place of woman who went to spend night with a priest. G303.25.11
• Recognition when parents come to son (priest, pope) to be confessed. H151.3
• Church door opens magically, as proof of priest's innocence. H216.3
• "What am I thinking?" "That I am the priest." So answers youth masking as priest. H524.1
• Arrested farmer tells who he is: one son is thief (priest), second beggar (teacher), and third murderer (doctor). H581.4
• Symbolic interpretation of sin. Priest drags heavy sack of sand behind him to show how men drag sin. (Cf. H604, H605.) H606
• Discussion between priest and Jew carried on by symbols. E.g., priest raises three fingers (Trinity); Jew raises arm (one God); etc. H607.1
• Riddle: the king is surrounded by his nobles; what is this like? (The idol Bel surrounded by the priests of the god.) H825
• "Do not trust the over-holy": counsel proved wise by experience. Wife so modest she will not travel with husband (adulteress); priest so pious he will not tread on worm (thief). J21.18
• Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
• Priest walks in the mud. Congregation follows evil ways of priest. He walks in mud but they will not follow him. He thus shows them the folly of following his evil ways. J82
• Wisdom from dream: the leper with the cup of water. Man in dream willing to receive sacrament from unworthy priest. J157.1
• Priest sells his donkey because worry for its safety distracts him from prayer. J357
• Man disregards priest's warning that he will seduce his wife. Adultery committed. J652.3
• Priest must give up his charge or his mistress. Gives up his parish and immediately loses his fickle mistress. J705.1
• Priest keeps in container relic which when kissed renders people immune from pestilence. They only kiss container, so that if they die he will not be held responsible. J762.1
• Prime minister bribes priest to persuade king that ocean of milk he wishes sought for had curdled. J811.5
• With a silent person one is alone. Angered bishop will not answer when addressed. Relents when priest says, "Since there is no one here I may heed the call of Nature." J817.3
• Consolation: priest tells blind man that even flies have eyes but only man has the inner eyes of the soul. J893.1
• Man disregards priest's warning and is punished. J1055
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): J1085.1[b]. Priest with crucifix and club. Orders church thieves to replace stolen goods. When crucifix does not bring obedience he forces them with club.] J1085.1[b][1st ed.]
• Detection through ruse. Husbands ask suspected priest to talk to wives on tithing, and thus obtain sufficient evidence to convict him. J1141.11
• Bishop orders priest to wear his beard and his robe "not too long and not too short." J1161.8.1
• Enoch Arden decision. Man believing wife dead becomes a priest. Later finds her alive. Pope's decision: he may remain both a priest and husband but must not consort with any other woman. J1179.10
• 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
• Why God has few friends. Priest consoles sick man by saying that God chastens those whom he loves. J1261.1.2
• Distrusts God when he can be brought by a man. Priest offers to help peasant with "the body of the Lord". – "If God can be brought by a man, he is too weak to help me." J1261.2.2
• Priest may eat communion supper. Thief about to be hanged is told that if he truly repents he will eat Lord's Supper in heaven. "If that is true, won't you eat the supper for me; I'll reward you well." J1261.2.3
• Priest bringing Host to dying man sees thief on his fig tree. Shouts vituperations at him. J1261.2.6
• Priest throws Chalice at owl. Says that he thought that the owl had stolen the Host. J1261.2.7
• Priest carries the Host across a dangerous stream. Spectators tell him to thank God for not drowning. "I helped Him across!" J1261.2.8
• Will lunch with Christ. Priest tells condemned man after confession that he will dine with Christ that evening. Mule that carries him to scaffold goes very fast and criminal says, "At this rate I shall lunch with Christ." J1261.3
• 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
• Why ignorant priests are favored. They can always find patrons as ignorant as they are. J1263.1.1
• Consecration of the ignorant priest. A bishop disgusted with priest's ignorance says, "Who consecrated you as priest?" – "You did, the time I gave you ten florins." J1263.1.2
• 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
• Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
• Priest refuses small bribe: only for large sum will he sell himself to devil. J1263.2.3
• Choosing his confessor. Ruler explains: "I want a lying priest so that if he repeats my confession he will not be believed." J1263.6
• Confession made easy. Peasant sees priest at work in the fields. Tells him he wishes to confess. He is told to put money in the box and take the same penance as the year before. J1263.7
• The church his wife. Priest accused of being too intimate with parishioners' wives says that the church is his wife and that the men treat her far more shamefully than he treats any woman. J1264.1
• Father wears a crown but is no king. Priest's son is thus taunted. J1264.3
• Multiplying his talents. Priest is entrusted with reforming five dissolute nuns. Gets all five with child. The priest is rebuked for not using his "talents" when tempted. He answers: "God gave me five talents and I have added five more!" (Pun on word talent.) J1264.7
• Unequal returns. Man at his lady's funeral says to priest: "You enjoy them when they are young and then give them to us to bury. J1264.8
• Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish. J1265.2
• Scolding priest says he is merely trying to get even for all the scolding he must undergo. J1269.4
• Mice die of hunger. Complaints against underpaid priest that he does not stay at home. Says he cannot stay at home for the mice are dying of hunger since he receives only forty florins a year. J1269.10
• Youth announces fire in imitation of priest's metaphorical language. The fire set by cat's tail gains headway. J1269.12
• How many priests should one have in one place? How many fox tails will reach to heaven? All depends on the length of the tails. J1291.3
• The overloaded mule. Priest complains that miller's mule is overloaded. "No, he isn't; he can still carry all your and your brothers' patience." J1302
• Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. J1322.2
• Before, during, and after. A priest, asked when he would have certain choice wine served, before or after the meal, replies, "The holy Mary was Virgin before, during, and after the birth." J1343.2
• Aaron's censer. A man strikes a priest with a cane: "This is Moses' staff." The priest shoots with a pistol: "This is Aaron's holy censer." J1446
• Counterfeit money burned up. A priest who has lent money to a Jew, but will not lend to a farmer, on being reproached by the latter, says that the money he lent the Jew was "false". When the Jew gets to know of this, he claims that as soon as he heard the money was false he burnt it up. J1511.10
• Can drink only one kind of wine at a time. Priests come to an inn where host gives them good wine and bad. They insist on having all good since they must drink only one kind of wine. On their return he serves them with all bad. They claim to have had the rule changed. J1511.15
• Priests say dying woman's unfulfilled request for mangoes must be paid in golden mangoes to them. Priests burned with iron since she had asked to be cauterized. J1511.18
• The father of an illegitimate child must walk in front of the cross. Condemned man insists that the priest, who is guilty also, shall lead the way. J1515.1
• Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses. J1527
• Priest forbidden to have female servant ostentatiously washes his own clothes. Bishop reverses the order. J1539.1
• Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it. J1545.2
• Imagined penance for imagined sin. A penitent confesses that a plan to sin had entered his mind. Priest tells him that the thought is as good as the deed. Assesses four florins as penance. Penitent says that he had only had it in his mind to give the florins; he must take the thought for the deed. J1551.2