μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Snake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.)

Animals. · Marriage of person to animal. · Animal paramour. · view the constellation · filed as B613.1

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“The people heard that the children had abundance of food of all kinds, and they all moved to them. When they arrived the children invited them, and the various companies came and ate with them. Finally they all went out again; only the children’s father now stayed with them again. But they regretted what he had done to them. So they caused the lions to jump upon their father, and he was killed.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 63 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • ArmenianAnanikian 74
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda, Anesaki 332. N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 239. – S. A. Indian (Warrau, Carib): Alexander Lat. Am. 272
  • general (Amazonia) ibid. 286
  • general (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 65f. – Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 142 No. 20.
Within the index

Filed under Reptile paramour. (Cf. B604.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Snake woman as paramour
Filed beside it
Crocodile paramourLizard paramour
Travels with
Marriage to snake. (Cf. B613.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Maiming by magicMagic sickness. (Cf. D1837.)Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.)Frightful meal as punishmentPursuit by rolling object

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