μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 mythCross
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
Within the index

Filed under Parents and children.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Son as pledge for father who has committed murderYoung hero rebuked by his fatherBerserks scold their father who apparently without reason called their adversary invincibleNatural son preferred to legitimateOldest son responsible to father for welfare of othersSon avenges fatherSon must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his motherProdigal son returnsSon chastizes father for scorning motherFather in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptationBirthright transferred by father from the oldest son to another. (Cf. P251.7.)
Filed beside it
Mother prefers son, father daughterMother dislikes her children in forced marriageQueen dislikes son who is unlike her and loves a poor girl: plots against himMother and sonMother and daughterFather and daughterUndutiful childrenDaughters flogged by parentsParents descend to hell instead of sonsChildren punished for fathers' sins

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