Fratricide in order to gain control of kingship — Mythoi

Motif

Fratricide in order to gain control of kingship.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Buddhist myth Malalasekera 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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