Man disfigures his face to remove temptation

Motif

Man disfigures his face to remove temptation.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T333.3

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Alphabet No. 659

Within the index

Filed under Man mutilates himself to remove temptation.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tempted rabbi tears out his eyes to escape temptation

Filed beside it

Tempted man bites out his tongue and spits it in temptress's face Tempted man burns off his fingers. Frightens his temptress Tempted holy man mutilates genitals Hero cuts off head and wraps it in napkin so he will not be tempted by sight of virgins

Carried in tale types

The Chaste Nun (previously Present to the Lover) · ATU 706B1 recorded variant

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