μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J225.0.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas III 23, *296, Goebel Jüdische Motive in märchenhaften Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 116ff., *Neuman.
  • general *Type 759
  • general *BP IV 326 No. 3
  • general **DeCock Studien en Essays 178ff.
  • general *Crane Vitry 179 No. 109
  • general Herbert III 8
  • general Fb "uskyldig"
  • general Alphabet Nos. 68, 411
  • general Scala Celi 15a No. 85
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 508b nn. 9–11
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 32
  • general **O. Rohde Die Erzählung vom Einsiedler und dem Engel (Leipzig, 1894)
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 682. – Irish: Beal XXI 336
Within the index

Filed under Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong.

1 finer motif beneath it
Angel explains to hermit why God lets a sinner die in peace and have big funeral while holy hermit is slain by a wild beast
Filed beside it
God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of one Angel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutable Youth made lame: had kicked his mother Lion sent to kill a man: frees him from possibility of sinning and sojourn in purgatory Angel takes cup from old man. Done lest he love the cup too much Angel (Jesus) kills man. Done because man is plotting a murder Angel kills man because he loves his child too much Saint gives liberally to gambler, little to beggar. Gambler is generous, beggar hoards Forestman who longs to do evil is sent to hell: writer, who repents, is sent to heaven. God justifies this to his sage Evil mother has fine funeral, good father poor

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