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Motifs — first 20 of 31
- Saint's bell lands at place where monastery is to be founded. D1314.4.0.1
- Submarine monastery. (Cf. F725.6.) F133.3
- Bell brought from monastery under water. F725.6
- Rainbow stretches from monastery to heaven at saint's death. F960.2.2
- Witch lives in monastery. (Cf. G243.) G235
- Quest to submarine monastery. H1287
- Man shows his patience by accepting blow in face with stool thrown by his superior in monastery. H1553.4
- Monk goes to wilderness to escape work on material things. Finds that he must work to live and returns to monastery. J215.4
- Judgment Day a long way off. Thief told by monk that he must return stolen cloth on Judgment Day "If I have so long a period of grace, I should like to take the whole monastery." J1261.7
- The abbot burns his mouth. Says that he is crying because so many have left the monastery. J1478.1
- Thief becomes monk in order to rob monastery. K311.4
- Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia). K1837.7
- Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards. K2312.2
- Prophecy: saint's monastery will be persecuted. M364.1
- Anchor catching in oratory of submarine monastery leads to adventures. N786
- Refugee entertained in holy place (church, monastery, etc.). P322.3
- Woman disguised as monk enters monastery. P426.3.3
- Husband forgiven for having killed jealous wife: builds monastery and becomes monk in it. Q171.1.1
- Monk neglecting to prostrate self at canonical hours expelled from monastery by saint and dies on seventh day. Q223.13.1
- Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Q414.0.3.1