Devil bargains to help man win woman — Mythoi

Motif

Devil bargains to help man win woman.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Bargain with devil. · view the constellation · filed as M217

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs 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 robberies Devil 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 overexhaustion Devil to help gambler in exchange for one task yearly 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 Devil bargains to help man become priest. He must not later exorcise him from people Contract with the devil destroyed Other devil contract motifs

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