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Keywords:
Mind, soul, way of living, conduct
Description of this motif: Faith is described both from the outside and from within. Seen from the outside faith is described as e.g. churches, mass, monks and nuns, people praying, seen from within faith is a person's piece of mind, hope and faith in God and life and existence.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 God Can Never Die (1836)
- 1 Twenty-fifth Evening (1840)
- 1 On Judgment Day (1852)
- 1 Five Peas from a Pod (1852)
- 1 A Leaf from Heaven (1853)
- 1 At the Uttermost Parts of the Sea (1854)
- 2 The Jewish Girl (1855)
- 1 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 3 The Stone of the Wise Man (1858)
- 2 Anne Lisbeth (1859)
- 1 The Child in the Grave (1859)
- 7 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 2 The Bishop of Börglum and his Men (1861)
- 3 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 2 The Psyche (1861)
- 1 The Old Church Bell (1861)
- 1 The Bird of Folklore (1864)
- 1 The Porter's Son (1866)
- 1 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 2 Sunshine Stories (1869)
- 2 Chicken Grethe's Family (1869)
- 3 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 7 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Cripple (1872)
- 1 Aunty Toothache (1872)
- 1 Kartoflerne (Danish title) (1953)