Asceticism — Mythoi

Motif

Asceticism.

Religion. · Religious orders. · Clerical virtues and vices. · view the constellation · filed as V462

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Spanish Exempla Keller
Jewish *Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Loomis White Magic 111f.
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 42b

Within the index

Filed under Clerical virtues and vices.

18 finer motifs beneath it

Kingship renounced to become an ascetic Since salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed useless Husband abandons wife to become ascetic Murderer becomes ascetic Maintaining silence as ascetic practice Ascetic fasting Ascetic weeping Asceticism: allowing self no repose Ascetic cleric tortures his flesh Ascetic cleric avoids listening to music Ascetic cleric never smiles Ascetic immersion Ascetic cleric leads mendicant life Ascetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's back Ascetic 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 him Evil ascetic misuses magic powers obtained through religious meditation Boy takes twelve years to wash off ascetic's dirt

Filed beside it

Clerical virtue Religious martyrdom Self-torture to secure holiness Clerical vices Simony Priest uses cook-book instead of breviary Priest is bribed into betraying the confessional

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Asceticism rewarded. (Cf. V462.)

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