Fratricide in order to gain control of kingship

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Fratricide in order to gain control of kingship.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Other cruel relatives. · view the constellation · filed as S73.1.1

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 myth*Cross
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 492.

Within the index

Filed under Fratricide.

Filed beside it

Murder of stepbrother (foster brother)Brother kills and eats brother. (Cf. G10.)Elder brother threatens to kill younger as soon as he is born Fratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.)

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