μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Asceticism.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Ascetic cleric prays to become diseasedAscetic cleric wears hair garmentAscetic cleric sleeps on stone
Filed beside it
Kingship renounced to become an asceticSince salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed uselessHusband abandons wife to become asceticMurderer becomes asceticMaintaining silence as ascetic practiceAscetic fastingAscetic weepingAsceticism: allowing self no reposeAscetic cleric avoids listening to musicAscetic cleric never smilesAscetic immersionAscetic cleric leads mendicant lifeAscetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's backAscetic cleric renounces world (to become a herder)Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test himEvil ascetic misuses magic powers obtained through religious meditation

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