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Feast, festival, life, death, spring
Description of this motif: The Jewish Easter, pesach, is celebrated in memory of the exodus. Easter is also rooted in a traditional spring feast, celebrating the barley harvest and the cattle. In Christianity Easter ia a feast in the memory of Jesus' death and resurrection, which took place during the Easter feast in Jerusalem according to the gospels. (Gads Religionsleksikon, 1999)
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The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 The Bond of Friendship (1842)
- 2 The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters (1859)
- 1 The Porter's Son (1866)
- 1 What One Can Invent (1869)
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