μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 11 No. 86
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • 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 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
Carried in tale types

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