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Keywords:
Faith, divine Providence, fate
Description of this motif: Providence is Gods knowledge about and interfering with the course of events among the living. Faith in Providence is trusting that God or a guardian angel helps one through difficult situations and hard times and helps one make the right decisions.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 3 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 6 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 1 God Can Never Die (1836)
- 1 The Galoshes of Fortune (1838)
- 2 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 The Metal Pig (1842)
- 1 The Story of a Mother (1847)
- 1 The Flax (1848)
- 1 The Swan's Nest (1852)
- 2 Under The Willow Tree (1852)
- 2 Five Peas from a Pod (1852)
- 4 She Was Good for Nothing (1852)
- 1 The Nightcap of the "Pebersvend" (1858)
- 1 Something (1858)
- 1 The A-B-C Book (1858)
- 1 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 1 "Beautiful" (1859)
- 1 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 1 Two Brothers (1859)
- 1 The Bishop of Börglum and his Men (1861)
- 2 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 1 The Psyche (1861)
- 1 Golden Treasure (1865)
- 2 The Porter's Son (1866)
- 1 The Goblin and the Woman (1867)
- 4 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 2 Luck May Lie in a Pin (1869)
- 1 Sunshine Stories (1869)
- 1 What the Whole Family Said (1870)
- 1 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 2 The Cripple (1872)
- 1 The Poor Woman and the Little Canary Bird (1949)