μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • 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 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 tortures his fleshAscetic 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 meditationBoy takes twelve years to wash off ascetic's dirt
Filed beside it
Clerical virtueReligious martyrdomSelf-torture to secure holinessClerical vicesSimonyPriest uses cook-book instead of breviaryPriest is bribed into betraying the confessional
Travels with
Asceticism rewarded. (Cf. V462.)

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