μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Son as pledge for father who has committed murder.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P233.1

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.
Within the index

Filed under Father and son.

Filed beside it
Young hero rebuked by his father Berserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincible Natural son preferred to legitimate Oldest son responsible to father for welfare of others Son avenges father Son must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his mother Prodigal son returns Son chastizes father for scorning mother Father in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptation Birthright transferred by father from the oldest son to another. (Cf. P251.7.)

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