μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 17references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 49, 67 Nos. 330, 510, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 70–74, 83f.
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • ArgentinaJijena Sanchez 74
  • general Types 330, 360, 361, 756B, 810, 812, 1170–1199
  • general *BP II 164, 427, 561ff., III 12
  • general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 46, 50, 223, 227 n.
  • general Lidzbarski Am Urds-Brunnen IV 59 n. 1
  • general Scala Celi 9a, 112a, 135b Nos. 58, 625, 749
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 667
  • general *Fb "sjæl" III 215a
  • general Faligan RTP V 1
  • general Alphabet Nos. 50, 467
  • general *Ludorff Anglia VII 60ff.
  • general *Loomis White Magic 112f.
  • general *K. Bittner Die Faustsage im russischen Schrifttum (Reichenberg. i. B. [Prager Deutsche Studien No. 37], 1925)

Showing a bounded trail of 17 from 17 references.

Within the index

Filed under Bargain with devil.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Man unwittingly sells soul to devil. He jestingly offers to sell his soul. Devil in disguise buys itMan sells soul to devil in return for devil's building house (barn, etc.)Man bequeaths soul to devilJews must repay devil's help by giving tribute of persons each yearFormulas for selling one's soul to devilMan sells soul to devil for visit home in boat that sails through skyMan sells soul to devil for magic power to escape captureMan sells soul to devil for devil's doing one specific jobPerson sells soul to devil in return for the granting of wishes
Filed beside it
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
Travels with
Person sells soul to devil in exchange for witch powers. (Cf. G281, M211, K210ff.)Pact with devil signed in blood. (Theophilus.) (Cf. M211.)Youth sells himself to an ogre in settlement of a gambling debt. (Cf. M211, S215.)
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