μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • GreekGrote I 219
  • JewishNeuman
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 13
  • TongaGifford 83
  • MaoriClark 157, Beckwith 157.
  • general Krappe Revue des Études Anciennes XXXV (1933) 146ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other cruel relatives.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Murder of stepbrother (foster brother)Fratricide in order to gain control of kingshipBrother kills and eats brother. (Cf. G10.)Elder brother threatens to kill younger as soon as he is bornFratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.)
Filed beside it
Cruel uncleCruel auntPerson banishes brother (sister)Man blinds brother. (Cf. S165.)Cruel nephew
Travels with
Extraordinary nature phenomena on night of fratricide. (Cf. S73.1.)

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