μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 256f.
  • MarquesasHandy 111.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel relatives-in-law.

1 finer motif beneath it
Burned and underbaked bread. Wishing to rid herself of her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law starts to feed him burned bread; but the old man begins to thrive on it. When she tries underbaked bread, he dies very soon
Filed beside it
Cruel mother-in-law. See references to K2110.1. and K2215, many of which have the present motifCruel father-in-lawCruel sister-in-lawCruel son-in-law

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