μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • West IndiesFlowers 562.
  • general Types 310, 313A, 316, 360, 400, 425C, 441, 500, 502, 706, 710, 756B, 810–812, 1170–1199
  • general BP II 164, 329f., 427, 561ff., III 12, *Andrejev FFC LXIX 222ff.
  • general *Fb "djævel" IV 99a, "blod" IV 47b. – England, U.S.: Baughman
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Man sells soul to devil. (Faust, Theophilus.)Devil agrees to help man with robberiesDevil as substitute for day laborer at mowing. He mows with a magic sickle. The evil overseer tries to keep up with him and dies of overexhaustionDevil to help gambler in exchange for one task yearlyWith his whole heart: devil carries off judge. The devil refuses to take anything not offered him with the whole heart. He hears the judge (advocate) cursed for fraud with such sincerity that he carries him offDevil bargains to help man become priest. He must not later exorcise him from peopleDevil bargains to help man win womanContract with the devil destroyedOther devil contract motifs
Carried in tale types

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