μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 *Mensa Philosophica No. 104
Within the index

Filed under Anchorites under temptation.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Tempted man bites out his tongue and spits it in temptress's faceTempted man burns off his fingers. Frightens his temptressMan disfigures his face to remove temptationTempted holy man mutilates genitalsHero cuts off head and wraps it in napkin so he will not be tempted by sight of virgins
Filed beside it
Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. (St. Anthony.)Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)Monk 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
Self-mutilation. (Cf. T327.1, T327.2, T333.)Mutilation to repel lover. (Cf. S160, T333.)

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