44 motifs match “sinner”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of decrying female sinners. A1556.3.1
• Hand of sinner sticks out of grave. E411.0.1
• Unquiet dead sinner taken to priest for absolution. E411.0.2
• Sinner wanders between earth and heaven. E411.0.4
• Other dead drive sinner from graveyard. E411.0.5
• Dead holy man begs grave-digger not to bury sinner on top of him. E545.9
• Tree from sinner's grave. E631.0.6
• Souls of sinners to spend seven years under waters of the sea before Doomsday. E751.5
• Hell fires kindled according to sins of sinners. E755.2.4.1
• Devils torment sinners in hell. E755.2.7
• Extraordinary island upon which no sinner can die (be buried). F747
• Devil tries to move repentant sinner to despair. G303.9.4.9
• When devil leaves dead sinner's body, only bones remain. G303.18.0.1
• Angel explains to hermit why God lets a sinner die in peace and have big funeral while holy hermit is slain by a wild beast. J225.0.1.1
• God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of one. J225.0.2
• God's punishment: the sinner may have twelve years of famine or twelve hours of heavy rainfall. J229.13
• The beggar on the cross in place of Christ. Is made to leave the cross for his impatience concerning the sinners. L435.4
• Prophecy: sinners to be burnt by fire on Doomsday. M341.2.7.1
• Prophecy: sinners going to heaven are to be numbered by hairs in saint's chasuble. M364.3.1
• Priest curses sinner: even his grave shall not rest. The grave rolls like a wave. M411.14.1
• Numerous sinners to go to heaven as reward for man's writing hymn. (Cf. Q35.) Q172.5
• Magic punishment: tongue protrudes from mouth of sinner and blindness follows. Q551.8.6
• Sword (of fire) from heaven drawn upon sinners. Q552.13.0.2
• Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) Q552.17
• Sinners endure hell tortures for one year. Q560.3
• Girdles of sinners in hell alternately scorch with heat and cold. Q562.1
• Sharp icy hoods (cowls) worn by sinners in hell. Q567.1
• Sinners in hell forced to sit in dark puddles up to their middles. (Cf. A689.1.) Q569.1
• Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons. Q569.2
• Sinners in hell fall into mouth of devil. Q569.3
• Sinners in hell painfully suspended. Q569.4
• Husband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner." T257.4
• Handsome exterior does not indicate beautiful soul. Angel holds nose when handsome sinner passes. U119.3
• Protection of sinners by confession. V20.1
• Sinner confesses before sinning and thus is pardoned. V21.5
• Sinner's tearmarks on written confession cause bishop to pardon his sins. V21.6
• Search for confessor. Great sinner sent from one confessor to another. All say that his sins are too great for forgiveness. Finally he succeeds. V29.1
• Prayer of sinner changes his color from black into white. V52.11
• Hell as a monastery – the devil, abbot; sinners, monks. V118.0.1
• Angel comforts repentant sinner. V235.2
• Angel beseeches at unholy grave of redeemed sinner until body is moved to sanctified ground. V244
• Virgin Mary prevents (retards) death so as to save sinner's soul. Permits time for repentance and absolution. (Sometimes resuscitation.) V251
• Sinner reformed after visit to heaven and hell. V522
• Sinner who thinks of God saved; devotee who thinks of worldly things goes to hell. V525