μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wrong sign put out leads to boys' leaving home. They are to be informed by a sign if a sister is born.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Hasty killing or condemnation (mistake). · view the constellation · filed as N344.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8.
  • general *Type 451
  • general BP I 70ff.
Within the index

Filed under Father kills self believing that son is dead. The son forgets to spread white sails, the prearranged signal of his safety. (Told also of lovers.)

Filed beside it
Father causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife
Carried in tale types

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