26 motifs match “priests”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of priests. A1654.1
• Tabus of priests. C573
• Magic invisibility of priests. D1981.5
• Devils are created from sinful priests. G303.1.6
• Old woman gives chickens to devils. They do not accept them. She gives them to priests and they eat them. G303.25.6
• Riddle: the king is surrounded by his nobles; what is this like? (The idol Bel surrounded by the priests of the god.) H825
• Why ignorant priests are favored. They can always find patrons as ignorant as they are. J1263.1.1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Priests (schoolmasters) ignorant of Latin. J1741
• "Agnus dei" as a prayer for money. An ignorant schoolmaster interprets many of the texts of scripture as commands for the priests to live lives of luxury. J1741.2
• The Lord has departed. Maidservant on way to church on Palm Sunday meets priests leading ass on which Jesus rode. The maid runs home and tells her mistress that the Lord has mounted and has just gone away. J1823.1.3
• Priests substitute gilded images of calves for those of solid gold. K476.4.1
• Oracular images occupied by spirits or priests who give the answers. K1972
• Treacherous priests prolong mass to let enemy destroy city. K2354
• Druids as priests. P427.1.2
• Institution of priests and Levites as reward for observance of Sabbath. Q113.4.1
• Cat ceases catching rats as soon as he is given a home in a monastery. Thus with lazy priests. U271
• Religious exercises weighed in balance. A son doubts whether the words spoken by the priests to whom his father has willed a sum of money is worth so much. The words are put on paper and are found to outweigh the money. V4.1
• Negligent priests buried under bags filled with words omitted from service. V5.2
• House and family appear overnight to afford hospitality to benighted priests. (Cf. Q45.1.) V229.21
• A bad year for priests: few funerals. All but the priest rejoice over the good health of the community. He bemoans his loss of income from burials. X427
• Enmity between priests and monks: chickens and eggs. Monks eat eggs and make chickens expensive; priests eat hens and make eggs high. X428