μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man betrayed into eating his own children.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Deception into killing own family or animals. · view the constellation · filed as K940.1

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Filed under Deception into killing own family or animals.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man betrayed into eating his own children and setting the village on fire. (Cf. K941.2, K944.)
Filed beside it
Man betrayed into killing his wife or grandmother Trickster's false report of high prices causes dupe to destroy his property Angry man kills his own horse by mistake. Trickster has shifted the places of his horse and that of the dupe Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil Deceptive agreement to kill wives (children). Trickster shams the murder; dupe kills his Woman tricked into giving poison to her husband: thinks it a love-philtre Bird flies on head of dupe's child. Dupe strikes at bird and kills child King causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion King lured to send his sons on fatal quests and to kill nephews

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