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God contains among others: The Holy Spirit
See also Allah, Divine light, God's Kingdom, heaven
Description of this motif: "God" is the God of christianity, which in the eyes of Andersen is the God of all people. Andersen's religious were not dogmatic, and he never accepted the dogma of the trinity; God is for Andersen one, and he never speaks of the Holy Ghost. He considered Jesus to be a chosen man.
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 The Galoshes of Fortune (1838)
- 2 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 Fourteenth Evening (1839)
- 1 The Wicked Prince (1840)
- 1 The Angel (1843)
- 2 The Snow Queen (1844)
- 2 The Red Shoes (1845)
- 1 The Bell (1845)
- 2 The Little Match Girl (1845)
- 1 A View from Vartou's Window (1846)
- 1 Little Tuck (1847)
- 1 The Story of a Mother (1847)
- 1 The Phoenix Bird (1850)
- 1 The Puppet-show Man (1851)
- 4 A Story (1851)
- 1 The Pigs (1851)
- 3 There is a Difference (1851)
- 1 The World's Fairest Rose (1851)
- 1 The Swan's Nest (1852)
- 1 On Judgment Day (1852)
- 1 Everything in its Proper Place (1852)
- 1 The Goblin and the Grocer (1852)
- 2 Under The Willow Tree (1852)
- 1 Five Peas from a Pod (1852)
- 5 She Was Good for Nothing (1852)
- 1 The Last Pearl (1853)
- 1 A Leaf from Heaven (1853)
- 1 At the Uttermost Parts of the Sea (1854)
- 1 Ib and Little Christine (1855)
- 1 The Thorny Road of Honor (1855)
- 3 The Jewish Girl (1855)
- 1 A String of Pearls (1856)
- 1 The A-B-C Book (1858)
- 4 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 2 The Stone of the Wise Man (1858)
- 2 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf (1859)
- 1 Ole, the Tower Keeper (1859)
- 3 Anne Lisbeth (1859)
- 4 The Child in the Grave (1859)
- 1 Pen and Inkstand (1859)
- 8 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 1 The Bishop of Börglum and his Men (1861)
- 1 The New Century's Goddess (1861)
- 3 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 3 The Psyche (1861)
- 1 The Old Church Bell (1861)
- 2 The Bird of Folklore (1864)
- 1 Golden Treasure (1865)
- 1 Kept Secret but not Forgotten (1866)
- 2 Peiter, Peter, and Peer (1868)
- 4 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 1 The Dryad (1868)
- 1 Luck May Lie in a Pin (1869)
- 1 The Comet (1869)
- 2 What the Whole Family Said (1870)
- 1 Great-Grandfather (1870)
- 2 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 1 The Gardener and the Noble Family (1872)
- 4 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Cripple (1872)
- 1 Aunty Toothache (1872)
- 3 Folks Say - (1949)
- 1 The Poor Woman and the Little Canary Bird (1949)
- 1 Urbanus (1949)
- 2 Æblet (Danish title) (1959)
- 1 De blaae Bjerge (Danish title) (1972)