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- Communion feast to placate dead. A1541.1.2
- Dust from communion table breaks spell. G271.2.6
- At communion witches spit out wine over shoulder. G285.1
- Question (propounded on quest): How can the princess be cured? Answer: She must recover consecrated wafer which rat has stolen from her first communion. H1292.4.1
- 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
- The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
- Fatal bread. Numskull refuses communion because his sister died shortly after eating the bread. J1824
- Other misunderstandings of the communion. J1824.1
- Woman who eats before communion cannot swallow the wafer. V39.9
- The woman whose name was "Worthy." Refuses to say, "I'm not worthy" at communion. X453