μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 16references

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 myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "jalousie"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 49 No. 328*A, Espinosa II Nos. 120f., III Nos. 141f., Espinosa Jr. Nos. 81, 202–204
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • PersianCarnoy 323
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham, Eberhard FFC CXX 125
  • MarquesasHandy 86
  • TuamotuStimson 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-lawTreacherous foster brother. False accusation of theftTreacherous stepbrother
Filed beside it
Treacherous sister. Usually elder sisterTreacherous wifeTreacherous childrenTreacherous uncleTreacherous relatives-in-law
Travels with
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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