μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T332

Filed across the traditions
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 11 No. 86
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 211, 525 n. 49
  • general *Herbert III 357ff.
  • general Chauvin II 226 No. 3
  • general Gaster Exempla 213 No. 136
  • general *Toldo II 307ff., 310ff.
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 887
  • general Wesselski Mönchslatein 72 No. 63
  • general Alphabet No. 257. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 816*
Within the index

Filed under Anchorites under temptation.

1 finer motif beneath it
Woman sent by deity to tempt self-righteous anchorite
Filed beside it
Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. (St. Anthony.) 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
Carried in tale types

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