μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1094

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

1 finer motif beneath it
God persuades hero to substitute a false bride for his father; this results in a fight where the son kills the father
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 Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting

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