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Motifs — first 20 of 91
- Wild animal miraculously tamed. B771
- Tabu: offending devil. A smith or priest continually insults the devil's statue or picture (cf. C13). The devil brings the offender into dangerous situation (suspicion of theft or murder), and saves him miraculously when he promises never again to abuse the devil's likeness. C45
- Meat miraculously turned into fish on a feast day, and vice versa. D476.3.4
- Wine miraculously changed into other object. D477.0.1
- Things miraculously stretched or shortened if needed by a saint. D480.0.1
- Stretching lily plant. Miraculously quick growing. D482.2
- Fountain miraculously supports life. (Cf. D925.) D1472.1.1
- Magic object miraculously opens and closes. D1550
- Saint's bell when stolen miraculously returns. (Cf. D1213.) D1602.8
- Lime (for building church) miraculously renewed by power of saint. D1652.16
- Animals miraculously multiplied. D2106.1.2
- Saint's body miraculously moves so that it is laid properly north and south, not northeast and southwest. E411.0.8
- Soul of gambler won by saint in dice game. Dice miraculously split to make higher score for saint. E756.4.1
- Escape from lower world on miraculously growing tree. F101.5
- Skull has words miraculously written on it. F559.4.1
- Follower of a saint is miraculously made a famous preacher. F660.2.1
- Tree grows miraculously fast from seed. F811.19
- Vegetables (plants) which mature in miraculously short time. (Cf. F811.13.) F815.1
- Spring miraculously breaks forth against wrongdoer. F933.6
- Blindness miraculously cured. F952