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Motif

With 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 off.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Bargain with devil. · view the constellation · filed as M215

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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  • general *Type 1186
  • general **Taylor PMLA XXXVI 35ff., also in Bryan and Dempster Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 26974
  • general *Herbert III 592
  • general *Fb "ridefoged" III 53b
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 81, 807
  • general *Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Cambridge, Mass., 1933) 809 (Friar's Tale).
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Filed under Bargain with devil.

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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 yearlyDevil 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
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