μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). Usually kept in a tower. (Danaë.)

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as T381

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 153 n. 3, 154 n. 1, *Hartland Perseus chap. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • Babylonian Spence 157
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 5 No. 2
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 277 n. 21b
  • West Indies Flowers 578.
  • general *Types 310, 516
  • general *Krappe Balor 2ff., 11 nn. 38, 39
  • general *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff. (chest on water)
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 103, 107f.
  • general *Krappe Le Moyen Age 96ff.
  • general *Loomis White Magic 119. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Girl intended for marriage with king cloistered Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity Guarded maiden first seen by hero in church [First Edition: T381.2. Guardians of imprisoned virgin put to sleep while man enters to her.]
Filed beside it
Nun refuses to look at man 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." Adulterous love changed into a chaste one Heavy chastity belt imposed on wife Young man betrothed to statue. Man puts marriage ring on finger of statue of Venus (Virgin Mary). She afterwards forbids him the embraces of an earthly bride Attempt to keep wife chaste by carrying her in box. In spite of all precautions she meets men Other futile attempts to keep wife chaste Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrifice Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time Transformation: man to stone Petrification by glance Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman Magic sandals Magic cap Magic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.) Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.) Night magically lengthened Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.)
Carried in tale types

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