μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1053
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff.
  • general Wesselski Märchen 185
Within the index

Filed under Chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it
Nun refuses to look at manThe 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 oneHeavy chastity belt imposed on wifeYoung 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 brideImprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). Usually kept in a tower. (Danaë.)Other futile attempts to keep wife chasteMessage 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
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