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Boy is denied sight of all women except his mother and his nurse until he is eighteen. He falls in love with the first woman who is more attractive than his mother.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as T371.1

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Filed under The boy who had never seen a woman: the Satans. When he sees a girl and asks his father what it is, the father tells him it is Satan. Asked what he most likes he says, "The Satans."

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