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 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 temptationMonk 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 sinVirtuous man seduced by woman

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