Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite — Mythoi

Motif

Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T337

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general Alphabet No. 528

Within the index

Filed under Anchorites under temptation.

1 finer motif beneath it

Saint's enemy, wishing to cause saint to violate his oath never to "commit folly and utter lie," induces his daughter to tempt saint. Saint perceives trick and avoids 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 Sight or touch of woman as source of sin Virtuous man seduced by woman

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