μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Unwitting brother-sister incest.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Man unwittingly commits crime. · view the constellation · filed as N365.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 201
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/59)
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 516.
Within the index

Filed under Incest unwittingly committed.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Brother and sister unwittingly in love with each other Boy says, "Whoever eats this mushroom is my wife." His own sister eats it and he runs away
Filed beside it
Boy unwittingly commits incest with his mother Unwitting father-daughter incest Man unwittingly lies with mother-in-law
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Man unwittingly ravishes his own sister. (Cf. N365.3.)

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