μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ceremonial continence.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T310.1

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Cited in the index
  • general *Frazer Fasti IV 206ff.
  • general **E. Fehrle Die kultische Keuschheit im Altertum (Giessen, 1910).
Within the index

Filed under Celibacy and continence.

1 finer motif beneath it
"Night of Sabbath" (Friday night) only devoted to conjugal pleasures
Filed beside it
Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.) Saint's daughter dies when wooed Ravished girl's virginity restored by Virgin Mary Father kills daughter lest she become prostitute Continence in marriage The repression of lust. (Cf. D1356.) Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot)

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