μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • IrishO'Suilleabhain 31, Beal XXI 310
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 148f.
  • GreekGrote I 160
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/15).
  • general *Types 781, 832
Within the index

Filed under Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Queen expelled for poisoning stepsonWoman murders son's wives. (Cf. Q426.1.)
Filed beside it
God revenges murder after thirty yearsEnormity of kin murderEmperor punished for his many murders. He is carried to hellParricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.)Matricide punishedUxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.)Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.)Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.)Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brainsPunishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.)Fratricide punished. (Cf. Q411, Q414.0.13.)Punishment for murder of co-wifePunishment for wholesale massacre of tribeMurder of parents punished by member of familySlave killed who killed enemy at owner's order
Travels with
Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.)Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.)Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.)
Carried in tale types

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