μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 mythCross
  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 191
  • IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 361ff., Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Men disrobe and report they have been attacked: bring about warMessage falsified to bring about death of lovers
Filed beside it
Blind men duped into fightingOgres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done itUndesignated present starts quarrel for its possessionLiar brings about fight between dupesWoman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wifeWoman induces men to fight over her and kill each otherDissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in leagueBrothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's childGoddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fightingTreacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed

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