μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Arabian Burton Nights I 110 n., II 172 n.
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Indo-Chinese Dixon 165 *n. 47
  • Indonesia Dixon 172.
  • general **O. Rank Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage (Leipzig u. Wien, 1912)
  • general *Child V 484 s. v. "Incestuous"
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative Father-daughter incest Mother-son incest Brother-sister incest Son-in-law seduces mother-in-law Lustful stepmother Man marries his aunt (mother's sister) Youth attempts to seduce his grandmother Brother-in-law seduces (Cf.ks to seduce) sister-in-law
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Child of incest exposed. (Cf. T410.)

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