μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Missouri French Carrière.
  • general **C. Schubert Der Pflegesohn (Nourri) im Heldenepos (Marburg, 1906)
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Filed under Foster relatives.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Magician as foster father. (Cf. N845.) Fisherman as foster father Dwarf as foster father. (Cf. F451.5.1.) Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father Foster father as constant helper Foster children return foster father's love: avenge him, etc King's son named after his father's foster father Thor slays his foster father and takes himself the realm of Thrace
Filed beside it
Foster parents fined for blemish on child Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son Parents kill son for slaying their foster son Foster mother Foster brother Foster sister Foster son

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