μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • JewishNeuman.
Within the index

Filed under Origin of mental and moral characteristics.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges themBad 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
Filed beside it
Origin of other special characteristics of womenWhy women attract menOrigin of jealousy and selfishnessWhy man excels womanOrigin of lazinessOrigin of braveryOrigin of fearOrigin of shame for nakednessOrigin of evil inclinationsOrigin of drunkennessOrigin of hatred

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