μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fortunate youngest son. Always has good luck.

Reversal of fortune. · Victorious youngest child. · Victorious youngest son. · view the constellation · filed as L11

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“Go now, and take up your abode with your husband.”’ They put on their best clothes and went. On the way they had to pass Raven’s house, and heard the Ravens laughing inside, be- cause the girls had to marry Dirty-Boy. The elder sister said, “Let us go in and see what they are laughing about!” The younger one said, “‘No, our father told us to go straight to our husband.”’ The elder one went in, and sat down beside Raven’s eldest son.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 48 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 93, 281, 434, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 630, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 265, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 309, (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 16.
  • general *Type 1650
  • general BP II 69ff.
  • general MacCulloch Childhood 365
Within the index

Filed under Victorious youngest son.

1 finer motif beneath it
Seal of humiliation put by youngest brother-in-law on the back of his rivals
Filed beside it
Name of victorious youngest sonAbused son of younger co-wife becomes heroFavorite youngest sonCompassionate youngest son. Kind to people or animals: rewardedStupid youngest son becomes cleverYoungest brother helps elderOnly the youngest brother helps his sister perform dangerous taskYounger brother given birthright of elder
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Loathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing himSuitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-lawTrapping contest won by deceptionImpostors claim reward (prize) earned by heroHero (heroine) of unpromising occupation

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