Anchorites under temptation — Mythoi

Motif

Anchorites under temptation.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T330

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.
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 temptation Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains Saint exposes self to temptation but preserves chastity. Thus insures self greater reward in Heaven Sight or touch of woman as source of sin Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite Virtuous man seduced by woman

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Penance: resisting temptation. (Cf. T330.) Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.)

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