μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Why women are bad.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Jewish Neuman.
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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 them Bad women combination of nine different animals Bad 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 women Why women attract men Origin of jealousy and selfishness Why man excels woman Origin of laziness Origin of bravery Origin of fear Origin of shame for nakedness Origin of evil inclinations Origin of drunkenness Origin of hatred

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