Magyar Zoltán

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

RELICS

Parts of saint’s body

Stephen: The Holy Right Hand (St. Stephen’s right hand, preserved to this day): ST III:48-49; CH:63; Thuroczy: 58; Bonfini: 2.1.380-395; Temesvari: 52.38.

Ladislas: Saint’s herm (relic of saint’s head): GestaL: 9.

Gerald: Hairs of saint’s beard: GE I: 16.

Elizabeth: Saint’s nails, fingers, nipples (cut off her body by pilgrims while laid out on the catafalque): EL IV:IV.37; EL V:30; EL VII:8.V; EL VIII:40.

Kinga: Relics of saint’s body (healing power): KI I:3.

Margaret: Saint’s hair (healing power): MA II:II.34.

Saint’s blood:

Gerald: Saint’s blood: GE II:53, 68.

Helen: Blood taken from saint’s wounds: HE:10.

Oil oozing from saint’s body

Elizabeth: Oil oozing from saint’s body (gathered in a jug; healing powers): EL VI:18.

Helen: Oil oozing from saint’s wounds: HE:25.

Flower grown from saint’s body

Helen: Miraculous lilies grown on saint’s chest and stomach: HE:19.

Earth taken from saint’s tomb

Elizabeth: Earth taken from saint’s tomb (healing powers: spread on the body, dusted on the head, drunk in water): EL II:1, 39, 97; EL III:15; EL VIII:60.

Bread found by the saint’s burial-place

Margaret: Bread found by the saint’s tomb (healing power): MA II:II.18, 19, 20.

Water and wine with which saint’s hair was washed

Margaret: The water with which saint’s hair was washed (healing powers: to be drunk, rubbed in): MA I:V.18, VI.23; MA II:II.7, 10, 12, 16, 52. The wine with which saint’s hair was washed (healing power): MA I:VI. 35.

Saint’s crown

Stephen: The Holy Crown (St. Stephen’s crown sent him by the pope; the symbol of the Hungarian statehood): ST III:18-21; Temesvari: 52.29-30; EC:497-498.

Saint’s clothes

Emeric: Emeric’s cloak and purple garments: CP:67; CH:63; Thuroczy: 58.

Gerald: Saint’s garments in which he was murdered: GE II:56, 56, 56, 57. Saint’s robe: GE II:67. Saint’s camelhair cloak: GE II: 57, 63. Saint’s cowl: GE II: 57.

Elizabeth: Saint’s shawl, clothes: EL IV:IV.37; EL V:30; EL VII:8.V; EL VIII:40.

Margaret: Saint’s scapulary (healing powers): MA I:V.18; MA II:II.7, 17. Saint’s nun’s veil (healing power when placed on the head): MA I:II.11, V.7, 9-10 (king Ladislas IV), 16; MA II:II. 7, 11 (king Ladislas IV), 17. Bits of saint’s clothing (healing power): MA II:II.17, 34, 52.

Saint’s instruments of self-torture

Andrew: Saint’s iron belt: AN:8.

Gerald: Saint’s cilicium and whip: GE II: 57.

Margaret: Saint’s two cilicia: the one is worn and torn by too much wearing, the other new (healing power): MA I:I.129; MA II:II.17, 62 (healing power). Saint’s whip and girdle made of hedgehog-skin: MA I:I.118, 129. Saint’s iron belt: MA I:I.67, 129. Saint’s foot clout covered with small iron nails: MA I:I.129.

Saint’s statue

Ladislas: Saint’s equestrial statue cast in bronze in memory of his victory over the Tartars: JanusPannonius: 7th stanza; Hodinka: 466-467, 480-481, 480-481.

Holy stones

Stephen: Many who were cured on the way to saint’s shrine built high piles of stones which could be seen for a long time by the roadside everywhere in the country. ST III:45.

Gerald: The rock with which saint’s head was crushed: GE II:52, 57.

Ladislas: Slab of marble holed by saint’s tears: Madas:6.1.1.2.; Mazal-Vizkeleti: 94; Hodinka: 464-465, 478-479, 478-479. Saint’s stone bed and pillow: Madas:7.1.1.2. Gold coins turned into stone by saint’s prayers (’St. Ladislas’s money’): Temesvari: 17.1.3.; EC:404.

Talking icon

Kinga: Talking icon (holy image of Christ): KI I:21. Talking icon of the Virgin: KI I:22, 32.

Other miraculous objects

Elizabeth: The cover on saint’s altar (healing power): EL II:76; EL VIII:62. Saint’s gravestone (the hole driven through the gravestone at the head; healing power): EL II:40; EL III:15; EL VIII:47.

Kinga: Two candles burning with miraculous light: KI II:19. Kinga’s psalter: KI I:50. Kinga’s staff: KI I:46.

Sacred place

Margaret: A small chamber in the convent between the choir and the stone wall which came to be called ’the place of the Lady St. Margaret’ (healings occurred): MA I:II.26.

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2026

ISBN: 978 963 664 185 6

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

The work of folklorist Zoltán Magyar throws light on a relatively little-known segment of the dynastyc cult of saints in Central European cultural history. The hagiographies and legends written on different members of the Árpadian dynasty, ruling in Hungary between the 11th and 13th centuries, and their contemporaries endowed with the aura of sanctity, occur not only in their medieval Hungarian legendry but have also become part of the liturgical tradition and the cult of saints on German, Polish and Byzantine soil. The thematic and generic variety of this legendry and its many folkloric implications show close parallels with another major work of medieval European hagiography: the legends of early Irish saints. The type- and motif-index and generatic catalogue compiled by Zoltán Magyar orders the epic tradition, based on 11rh-16th century written sources, of twelve Hungarian royal saints who have become the subject of legends shortly after their death. Beside classification according to the type of legendd heroes and themes, the book also contains an analysis of the biographical data, of the historical sources and of the primary types and motifs of hagiographies.

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