μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
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Filed under Devil cheated by religious or magic means. Missouri French: Carrière.

Filed beside it
Devil cheated by having priest draw a sacred circle about the intended victimDevil cheated of his victim by boy having a bible under his armDevil cheated when his victim becomes a priestThe picture of the Virgin Mary saves the priestPenance of priest saves him from devil. The priest, who sold his soul to the devil, orders his servant to cut him (alive) up into pieces, to crucify him on a tree (and the like), thus saves his soul from the devilsDevil is unable to take man contracted to him when friends pray over the corpse

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