Treacherous sister-in-law

Motif

Treacherous sister-in-law.

Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous relatives. · view the constellation · filed as K2212.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 15
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 17
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 18
Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 2, Story 11
Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 9

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 315C*
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 706
general BP I 295ff.
general *bin Gorion Born Judas I 364

Within the index

Filed under Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister.

Filed beside it

Treacherous sister attempts to poison brother Treacherous sister as mistress of robber (giant) plots against brother Treacherous queen has her brother killed Treacherous stepsisters

Travels with

Sister-in-law. (Cf. K2212.2.)

Carried in tale types

Brother and Sister · ATU 872*1 recorded variant

wander