Motif
miraculous preservation from fire
miraculous_preservation_from_fire
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Rescue and Protection. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
4 occurrences
4 traditions
christian apocrypha (1) · inca (1) · islamic (1) · norse (1)
christian apocrypha
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The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V.; lines 9466-9579 confidence: high
The people set fire to the pile, but the flame does not touch Thecla; God causes an earth eruption and rain and hail from a cloud, so the fire is extinguished, some people are killed, and Thecla is preserved.
The people set fire to the pile, the large flame does not touch Thecla, and the fire is extinguished while she is preserved.
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inca
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First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, Vol. II SEVENTH BOOK OP THE ROYAL / COMMENTARIES OR THE YNCAS. / SEVENTH BOOK OF THE ROYAL / COMMENTARIES OP THE YNCAS.; lines 11215-11251 confidence: high
During a general rising, Indians set fire to the city, spared Collcampata, Cassana, and Amaru-cancha, and attacked the fourth hall with burning arrows; its straw caught fire in more than twenty places and its thatch was destroyed.
The fourth hall is attacked with burning arrows and catches fire, but the narrator says God did not permit it to be destroyed.
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islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25070-25157 confidence: high
When Abraham is cast into the burning pile, God says, "O fire, be thou cold, and a preservation unto Abraham"; the plotters are made the sufferers.
Abraham is cast into a burning pile, and God commands the fire to become cold and preserving for him.
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norse
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The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga CHAPTER CXXX. / OF KARI SOLMUND'S SON. / CHAPTER CXXXI. / NJAL'S AND BERGTHORA'S BONES FOUND.; lines 13298-13433 confidence: high
At the place Kari indicates, the men dig through ashes, find a hide shrivelled by fire, lift it, and find Njal and Bergthora unburnt beneath; the boy between them has a burnt-off finger; all praise God and think it a great token.
Njal and Bergthora are found unburnt beneath a fire-shrivelled hide, and the witnesses praise God and call it a great token; Skarphedinn is also partly preserved from the fire.
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