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The motif Prayer is a part of: Ritual
Keywords:
Faith, speech, words, ritual
Description of this motif:
Prayers in a religious sense of the word, are adressed to one or more gods, divine or sacred persons in anticipation of help, blessings or a good relationship.
There are prescribed prayers, e.g. the Lord's Prayer and Ave Maria, and there are prayers, which are spontaneous and individual. Both kinds are present in Andersen's tales.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 Dykker-Klokken (Danish title) (1827)
- 5 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 1 Det sjunkne Kloster (Danish title) (1831)
- 7 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 2 The Galoshes of Fortune (1838)
- 4 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 The Rose Elf (1839)
- 1 First Evening (1839)
- 1 Seventh Evening (1839)
- 1 Fifteenth Evening (1839)
- 1 Twenty-seventh Evening (1840)
- 1 Twenty-first Evening (1840)
- 1 Ole Lukoie (1841)
- 1 The Bond of Friendship (1842)
- 4 The Snow Queen (1844)
- 2 The Red Shoes (1845)
- 1 The Little Match Girl (1845)
- 1 Thirty-third Evening (1847)
- 1 The Old House (1847)
- 1 The Story of a Mother (1847)
- 2 A Story (1851)
- 1 On Judgment Day (1852)
- 2 Under The Willow Tree (1852)
- 1 Five Peas from a Pod (1852)
- 1 She Was Good for Nothing (1852)
- 1 A Leaf from Heaven (1853)
- 1 The Jewish Girl (1855)
- 1 The Bottle Neck (1857)
- 1 The Nightcap of the "Pebersvend" (1858)
- 1 Something (1858)
- 1 The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream (1858)
- 2 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 2 The Stone of the Wise Man (1858)
- 2 The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters (1859)
- 1 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf (1859)
- 1 Anne Lisbeth (1859)
- 3 The Child in the Grave (1859)
- 3 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 3 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 2 The Psyche (1861)
- 1 The Old Church Bell (1861)
- 1 Golden Treasure (1865)
- 1 The Porter's Son (1866)
- 1 Vänö and Glänö (1867)
- 3 The Dryad (1868)
- 1 The Comet (1869)
- 1 What One Can Invent (1869)
- 1 Chicken Grethe's Family (1869)
- 1 What the Whole Family Said (1870)
- 2 The Candles (1870)
- 2 Great-Grandfather (1870)
- 2 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 2 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Poor Woman and the Little Canary Bird (1949)
- 1 De blaae Bjerge (Danish title) (1972)