Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister

Motif

Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister.

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

Scholars’ trail — 11references

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 mythCross
Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 138–141
Italian Novella*Rotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 125
N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 382ff., 391
Africa (Zulu)Callaway 297.
general *Types 300, 315, 425, 706, 709, 780
general *BP I 551, III 2
general Dickson 29 n. 3

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

Filed beside it

Treacherous brother. Usually elder brother Treacherous wife Treacherous children Treacherous uncle Treacherous relatives-in-law

wander