A passage from Shakespeare's Richard III beginning 'I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion' is applied to herself by a female patient who suffers from castration inferiority. The quotation might serve every woman as an expression of her conviction of being castrated. The Greek myth of Kaineus, who, originally a maid, was permitted to become a man after being raped, and who worshipped only his own spear thereafter, and a dream of a male patient which faithfully though unwittingly reproduced the Crucifixion of Christ are the other two illustrations, from folk literature, of the universal castration complex.