μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of mental and moral characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A1371.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • FlemishDeMeyer FFC XXXVII 83 No. 11b.
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3047, Balys Legends Nos. 82–93.
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Filed under Why women are bad.

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Bad women combination of nine different animalsBad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics
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