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- Priest's concubine cannot rest in grave. E411.2.1
- Church door opens magically, as proof of priest's innocence. H216.3
- Man disregards priest's warning that he will seduce his wife. Adultery committed. J652.3
- Man disregards priest's warning and is punished. J1055
- Consecration of the ignorant priest. A bishop disgusted with priest's ignorance says, "Who consecrated you as priest?" – "You did, the time I gave you ten florins." J1263.1.2
- Father wears a crown but is no king. Priest's son is thus taunted. J1264.3
- Youth announces fire in imitation of priest's metaphorical language. The fire set by cat's tail gains headway. J1269.12
- The king no priest's son. A pope in writing to a king says, "To our dear son Frederick." Upon hearing this the fool cries out, "That is a lie; he is no priest's son. I knew his father and mother and they were both honest people." J1827
- Priest's words repeated. Man sent to priest for religious service to repeat priest's words. Keeps repeating "Who are you?" "Where do you come from?" J2498.2
- "Owner has refused to accept it." A rascal steals a priest's watch. He tells the priest that he has stolen a watch and offers it to him as a payment for a past favor. The priest refuses to accept stolen goods. Commands the thief to return the watch to the owner. "But the owner has refused to accept it." "Then you may keep it." K373
- Priest induced to betray secrets of confessional: money then exacted from him for silence. The trickster confesses that he has had intimacies with the priest's maid and then overhears the priest scold the maid. K443.8
- Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
- Abbess puts priest's trousers on her head. Suddenly called up while abed with the priest, she thinks to put on her coif. Discomfited by nuns whom she has denounced for incontinence. K1273
- Girl disguised as friar gets into priest's bed. K1315.6.3
- After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1
- The bribed boy sings the wrong song. The sexton steals the priest's cow. The next day the sexton's son sings, "My father stole the priest's cow." The priest pays the boy to sing the song in church. But the sexton teaches the boy a new song, "The priest has lain with my mother," and this is sung in church. K1631
- The priest's guest and the eaten chickens. The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest that the guest has stolen two chickens The priest runs after him. K2137
- Priest frightens boy by tying girl's corpse to bell-rope. In revenge the boy puts the body in the priest's bed. Priest flees. Dies from injuries. N384.8
- Priest's concubine is unable to rise from stone. She is finally freed by prayers and repentance. (Cf. Q243.1.) Q551.2.7
- Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? T411.1.1