Virtuous man seduced by woman — Mythoi

Motif

Virtuous man seduced by woman.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Anchorites under temptation. · view the constellation · filed as T338

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general Nouvelles de Sens No. 15

Within the index

Filed under Anchorites under temptation.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ascetic successfully tempted: kills son born in consequence

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 Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite

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