# St. Peter — Household Tales character guide

> St. Peter in Household Tales by Jacob Grimm.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** So St. Peter, this St. Peter, Therefore St. Peter

**First appearance:** 0034-the-tailor-in-heaven

## Who they are

The apostle who walks the roads of these tales as a quiet tester of souls, watching what mortals do when they think no one of consequence is looking.

## Relationships

### [Brother Lustig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/characters/brother_lustig)

_friendship_

Brother Lustig and St. Peter travel together, with St. Peter often testing or teaching Lustig.

### [Brother Lustig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/characters/brother_lustig)

_friendship_

Brother Lustig and St. Peter travel together, with St. Peter often testing or teaching Lustig.

### [Brother Lustig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/characters/brother_lustig)

_friendship_

Brother Lustig and St. Peter travel together, with St. Peter often testing or teaching Lustig.

## In the story

### [The Tailor in Heaven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/the-tailor-in-heaven)

Guards heaven's gate; reluctantly admits the tailor out of pity; later forced to expel him.

### [Brother Lustig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/brother-lustig)

Appears as a beggar and a discharged soldier, heals a sick peasant and a dead princess, and later confronts Brother Lustig for his greed and incompetence.

### [Gambling Hansel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/gambling-hansel)

Accompanies the Lord, gives Hansel money for bread, and repeatedly urges the Lord to intervene as Hansel's gambling threatens cosmic order.

### [The Old Man Made Young Again](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/the-old-man-made-young-again)

Accompanies the Lord and has compassion on the old beggar, blowing the bellows during the rejuvenation.

### [The Peasant in Heaven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/the-peasant-in-heaven)

Gatekeeper of heaven who admits the rich man first and later explains the lack of celebration for the peasant.

### [The Moon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/the-moon)

Saint Peter descends to the underworld to subdue the dead and takes the moon to hang in heaven.

### [The Twelve Apostles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/the-twelve-apostles)

The eldest son, sent out to seek bread; led by an angel to the cavern and rocked to sleep.

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