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Motifs
- Glowing animals. Horses, swine, etc. which glow. (Cf. B15.4.2.) B19.4
- Saint walks through glowing coals without harm. D1841.3.2.2
- Holy maidens carry glowing embers in their chasubles without being burned. D1841.3.2.4
- Ghost as glowing wheel. E421.3.1
- Ghost with glowing face. E421.3.3
- Ghosts in glowing wagon. E421.3.5
- Ghosts as dogs with glowing tongues and eyes. (Cf. E423.1.1, E522.) E421.3.6
- Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns. E487
- King of cats killed by glowing mass of iron thrown by saint. F981.7
- Devil with glowing eyes. G303.4.1.2.2
- Devil has glowing thumb. G303.4.3.1
- Glowing wheel supposed to be the devil. J1781.3
- Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) K1011