Father causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife — Mythoi

Motif

Father causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Hasty killing or condemnation (mistake). · view the constellation · filed as N344.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic Boberg.

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

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

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