Unwitting brother-sister incest

Motif

Unwitting brother-sister incest.

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

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
WelshMacCulloch Celtic 201
Italian Novella*Rotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys
TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/59)
HawaiiBeckwith 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

Man unwittingly ravishes his own sister. (Cf. N365.3.)

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