123 different motifs have been indexed in the category Religious motifs:
There are more relevant issues than the ones presented in the list. many items can be found by the search engine, e.g. whitethorn. The most obvious absence may be that of immortality. Immortality, however, is not present as a motif in its own right, but is a theme, that is only a part of or an aspect of other motifs e.g. the intermediate state – try to search for it.- Ahasverus, The Wandering Jew
- Allah
- Altar
- Altar candles
- Amor
- Angels
- Armageddon, The Twilight of the Gods
- Astrology
- Baptism
- Belief in reunion with the dead
- Blessing
- The bone-horse
- The Book of Esther
- Brahma
- Candlemas
- Cherub
- Christmas, Christmas tree
- Church
- Church bell
- Coffin
- Communion
- The concept of the soul's account of good and evil being settled after death
- Confess, Confessional
- Confirmation
- Consecration, initiation
- Convent
- Cross
- Dalai Lama
- Death
- Devil, Satan
- Divine light
- Easter
- Elves
- Eternal life
- Eternity
- Fairies, elves
- Fairy
- Faith
- Faith in Providence
- Fate (goddess)
- The Flood, Noah's ark
- Funeral
- The Garden of Eden, the fall of man, the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve
- Ghost
- God
- God's Kingdom, heaven
- Gods, spirits and demons
- Grave
- The grave-pig
- Graveyard
- Heathens
- Hell
- High place
- The Holy Bible
- The Holy Spirit
- Holy water
- Hymn book, hymnal
- Hymn, psalm
- Ibis bird
- Incense
- Intermediate state
- Jacob's ladder
- Jesus Christ
- The Koran or Qur'an
- Lethe
- Lotus flower
- Love and tears release the soul
- Madonna
- Magic
- Mass, service
- Maypole, May Day, Walpurgis Night
- Mercy
- Merman, mermaid
- Minaret
- Miracle
- Miraculous cure
- Mosque
- Munks
- Nature's assurance of a life after death
- Neighbour
- New year
- Nix
- Nuns
- Oath
- Obelisk
- Ole Lukoie, the sandman
- Omen
- Parish clerk
- The phoenix bird
- Pious humility and gratitude
- Pixie
- Plant spirit
- Prayer
- Priest
- Prohibition of seeing or coming near God
- Prophet, prophecy
- Purification with water
- Religion
- Resurrection
- Ritual
- Sacrifice
- Saint
- Sea ghost
- Sermon
- Sin, sinner
- (Solemn) prayer day
- Sphinx
- Sunday
- The swamp witch, The woman of the marsh
- Tales about resurrection
- "the old man of the stream"
- Theologian
- To die and go to heaven
- Transformation
- Troll
- Twelfth Night, Epiphany
- Unleavened bread
- Wedding
- Whitsuntide
- Will-o'-the-wisps
- Witch
- Wivern, wyvern, The Midgard serpent
- Yggdrasil
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