Sight or touch of woman as source of sin — Mythoi

Motif

Sight or touch of woman as source of sin.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T336

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla *Keller.
general Alphabet Nos. 16, 527, 732, 776
general Scala Celi 121b, 156b Nos. 666, 874
general Mensa Philosophica No. 104
general Herbert III 343, 434

Within the index

Filed under Anchorites under temptation.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Woman's girdle as source of sin Woman's voice as 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 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 Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite Virtuous man seduced by woman

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