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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
  • general *Toldo II 304ff.
  • general *Loomis White Magic 187 n. 140
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. (St. Anthony.)Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)Man mutilates himself to remove temptationMonk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remainsSaint exposes self to temptation but preserves chastity. Thus insures self greater reward in HeavenSight or touch of woman as source of sinWoman wagers that she can seduce anchoriteVirtuous man seduced by woman
Travels with
Penance: resisting temptation. (Cf. T330.)Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.)

wander