Fratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.)

Motif

Fratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Other cruel relatives. · view the constellation · filed as S73.1.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Fratricide.

Filed beside it

Murder of stepbrother (foster brother)Fratricide in order to gain control of kingship Brother kills and eats brother. (Cf. G10.)Elder brother threatens to kill younger as soon as he is born

Travels with

Jealous wife or husband

wander