μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IrishBeal 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 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 womanOther devil contract motifs

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