μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 66 No. 508A*, Keller
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda. Cf. Cosquin Études 545ff. (sale of self to magician).
  • general *Loomis White Magic 113
  • general Alphabet No. 64
Within the index

Filed under Bargain with devil.

1 finer motif beneath it
Servant makes pact with devil denying Christ to secure nobleman's daughter
Filed beside 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 peopleContract with the devil destroyedOther devil contract motifs

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