ATU 759A The Sinful Priest

ATU 759A

The Sinful Priest

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Host taken away from sinful priest. 2 variants
Wisdom from dream: the leper with the cup of water. Man in dream willing to receive sacrament from unworthy priest. 1 variant
Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.