μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Other kinds of treacherous murder.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Woman's father and brothers kill her husband in sleep for having married against their wishesHeroes dislike to kill sleeping peopleMan murdered at his wife's side. (Cf. K873.1.)Woman marries king feigning that she can heal him, and murders him in sleep. Afterward she takes the kingdom together with his counsellorHero attacks and kills at night hero who wanted to go to sleep before their fighting
Filed beside it
Murder by putting mouth of pot over victim's headTent torn down over man, and he is then killedMurder from behindThorns planted so that birds are killed when they light on fieldPost-hole murder: people invite boy to enter post-hole and then try to crush him with log

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