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Motifs
- God's radiance upon Moses' face. A124.4
- God speaks to Moses from bush. A182.3.0.1
- Lions made tame by Moses' rod. B771.2.3
- Cure by Moses. D2161.5.4
- Miracles in the desert come to an end with death of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. F900.3.1
- Sun turned from one hour to another through the prayer of saint (Moses). F961.1.7
- Symbolic meaning of numbers one to seven (ten, twelve). E.g. One: sun; two: Moses' tablets; three: three Maries; etc. H602.1.1
- What is the tree that became flesh? (Moses's staff.) H823
- Riddle: what is that which has drunk water for its sustenance and eaten after its death? (Moses's staff, which became a serpent.) H824
- "Forty-nine gates of wisdom" open to Moses (and Solomon). J182.1
- Aaron's censer. A man strikes a priest with a cane: "This is Moses' staff." The priest shoots with a pistol: "This is Aaron's holy censer." J1446
- Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others. L111.2.1
- Moses as prophet. M301.7.1
- "What says David?" – Boy: "Pay your old debts." Variants: (a) What evil did Adam do? – He (shoemaker) made my shoes too small. (b) What kind of man was Moses? He was a day laborer. X435.1