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Description of this motif: One can find several priests in Andersen's tales, but they seldomly play important roles. "A Story" (1851) stars a priest, though.
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)
- 1 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 1 Little Claus and Big Claus (1835)
- 2 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 1 The Little Mermaid (1837)
- 1 The Galoshes of Fortune (1838)
- 5 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 The Wicked Prince (1840)
- 2 The Bond of Friendship (1842)
- 1 The Nightingale (1843)
- 1 The Snow Queen (1844)
- 3 The Red Shoes (1845)
- 1 The Bell (1845)
- 5 A Story (1851)
- 1 The World's Fairest Rose (1851)
- 1 Everything in its Proper Place (1852)
- 1 Ib and Little Christine (1855)
- 3 A String of Pearls (1856)
- 1 The Bell Deep (1856)
- 9 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 1 The Stone of the Wise Man (1858)
- 1 The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters (1859)
- 1 Ole, the Tower Keeper (1859)
- 1 Anne Lisbeth (1859)
- 1 "Beautiful" (1859)
- 3 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 2 The Bishop of Börglum and his Men (1861)
- 2 The Psyche (1861)
- 1 The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town (1865)
- 8 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 4 The Dryad (1868)
- 1 Chicken Grethe's Family (1869)
- 3 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 1 "Spørg Amagermo'er"! (Danish title) (1871)
- 1 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Cripple (1872)
- 1 Kartoflerne (Danish title) (1953)
- 1 Temperamenterne (Danish title) (1967)