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- Convention of trees. F979.13
- Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings. H509.1
- Literal penance: boy outwits pope. For three years not to drink wine, not to lie in bed, nor sleep with a prostitute. He goes to a convent, sleeps on eider down, and sleeps with the nuns. (God's daughters). When the pope condemns him he says he will go to his brother-in-law (Christ: he has wedded God's daughters). (Cf. J1764.5.) J1161.5
- Conventional greeting phrase taken literally: "Come and share it." J2499.6
- Men disguised as women enter convent and seduce impious nuns. (Cf. K1323.) K1321.4
- Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) K1323
- Paramour sends prostitutes in disguise to take mistress to "convent". Husband is deceived by the ruse. K1592
- Man acts as statue of saint in order to enter convent. K1842.1
- Reward for long-suffering nun: made abbess of convent. Q87.3
- Image bars way of nun trying to escape convent to join lover. V122
- Image of Jesus descends from cross and wounds nun leaving convent. V122.1
- Image of Virgin tries in vain to keep nun from leaving convent. V265.1
- Obedient and industrious nun the worthiest in the convent. V461.1
- Man calls convention of all long noses. X133
- "Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest. Z14
- Testament willing rewards and punishments. Conventional ending of a story. Z78