μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Treacherous brother. Usually elder brother.

Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous relatives. · view the constellation · filed as K2211

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "jalousie"
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 328*A, Espinosa II Nos. 120f., III Nos. 141f., Espinosa Jr. Nos. 81, 202–204
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Persian Carnoy 323
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 125
  • Marquesas Handy 86
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/615)
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 170
  • Africa (Zulu) Callaway 68.
  • general *Types 301, 502, 506, 550, 551
Within the index

Filed under Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0–S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Treacherous elder brother(s) Treacherous younger brother(s) Treacherous brother-in-law Treacherous foster brother. False accusation of theft Treacherous stepbrother
Filed beside it
Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister Treacherous wife Treacherous children Treacherous uncle Treacherous relatives-in-law
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Disguise as older brother to obtain blessing. (Cf. K2211.) Elder brothers banished for treachery. (Cf. K2211, Q261.)
Carried in tale types

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