Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains

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Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T334

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general *Crane Vitry 236 No. 245
general Herbert III 20.

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Filed under Anchorites under temptation.

1 finer motif beneath it

Monk goes into desert to avoid temptation of women, the prime source of sin

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.)Man mutilates himself to remove temptation 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

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