Contract with the devil destroyed — Mythoi

Motif

Contract with the devil destroyed.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Bargain with devil. · view the constellation · filed as M218

Filed across the traditions

Irish Beal XXI 311, O'Suilleabhain 33.
general Dh I 140
general Alphabet Nos. 64, 467

Within the index

Filed under Bargain with devil.

1 finer motif beneath it

Pacts with the devil, sealed in blood, made ineffective by a saint

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 Devil bargains to help man win woman Other devil contract motifs

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