μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1092

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg.
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Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

Filed beside it
Blind men duped into fighting Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession Liar brings about fight between dupes Woman 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 wife Woman induces men to fight over her and kill each other Falsified message brings about a war Dissension 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 league Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting Treacherous 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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