40 motifs match “wicked”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall. A1338
• Animals leave wicked and go to pious master. B292.0.2
• Wife curses wicked husband: "May devil take you!" Devil does. (Cf. M432.) C12.5.7
• Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.) C771.1.1
• Storm at death of wicked person. Devil comes for him. (Cf. D2141.0.3.) D2141.0.5
• Return from the dead to slay wicked person. E232
• The Flying Dutchman. A sea captain because of his wickedness sails his phantom ship eternally without coming to harbor. E511
• Souls of wicked eaten by deity. E752.9
• River in heaven burns wicked and gives joy to righteous. E755.1.2
• Clothes of wicked person burn when owner dies. E767.2
• Garden becomes wilderness because of owner's wickedness. F975.1
• Child finds gray hair in wicked father's head. Father sees that it is time for him to reform. J761.1
• Flattery of the wicked to escape death at his hands: "This is an offering to my lord Esau from his slave Jacob". J814.4
• The cynic and the deceiver. When the deceiver calls him wicked, he says, "I am glad that you are my enemy; for you do good to your enemies and evil to your friends." J1442.10
• Priest asked to preach short sermon does so saying to congregation only that they are wicked. J1647
• Two wicked men put to a fiery test ask for a third (pious) man to be tested together with them. K528.3
• Prophecy: wicked couple to be killed by own child. M343.4
• Wicked stepmother cursed to have fire lit under her. M431.6
• Man accidentally fed bread which his father has poisoned. The wicked man puts poison in the bread he gives a beggar. The beggar gives his loaf to the son. N332.1
• Wicked stepmother falls into the fire because of fright. (Cf. M431.6.) N384.3
• Wicked mother and her sons do everything to prevent daughter's marriage with beloved. P232.1
• Man refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct. P318
• Pope who has warred on wicked nobles refused burial in church. Magic wind blows doors open to show he has right to be buried there. [Inadvertant duplication of F963.3.] Q147.2
• Bears devour the wicked. Q415.6
• Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.) Q417.3
• Wicked son confined on island. Q433.9
• Wicked son blinded. Q451.7.5
• Devil beats wicked man's corpse. Q491.3
• Supernatural manifestations at death of wicked person. Q550.1
• Failure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.) Q552.3
• Recurrent plague during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.3.) Q552.10.1
• Punishment in hell fitted to the grade of wickedness. Q563.1
• Grain and pulse in human form imprisoned by wicked king. R9.2
• Devil carries off wicked people. R11.2.1
• Devil chases ghost of wicked man until he puts his head into chapel window. (Cf. E754.) R325.1
• Prince plans to kill wicked father for cruelty. S222
• The wicked queen reformed. While asleep she is made to exchange places with the cobbler's wife. She thinks she is in hell. The cobbler teaches her to obey and fear her husband. T251.2.4
• Incognito son tempts mother to see whether all women are wicked. T412.2
• Wicked woman unable to endure presence of host at mass. V39.2
• Accidental calling on god's name held to outweigh a life of wickedness. V91