μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lecherous father. Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter. (Manekine.)

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Incest. · view the constellation · filed as T411.1

Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 129 (Emare)
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 6
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "père"
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone II No. 6, III No. 2, *Rotunda
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 46 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VI
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109p
  • general *Types 510B, 706
  • general BP I 295ff., *301 n. 5, II 45ff.
  • general *Hibbard 25ff.
  • general *Cox Nos. 131–208
  • general Saintyves Perrault 187ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 420, II 184ff.
  • general Wienert FFC LVI *83 (ET 497), 115 (ST 256)
  • general Cosquin Études 3ff.
  • general Rohde Der griechische Roman 37ff., 448
  • general Dickson 199. – Irish myth: Cross
  • general Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 139.
Within the index

Filed under Father-daughter incest.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? Father feigning death returns in disguise and seduces daughter
Filed beside it
Girl got with child by intoxicated father
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Father casts daughter forth when she will not marry him. (Cf. T411.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: god to animal Transformation to escape death Magic helmet Helmet renders invisible. (Cf. D1101.4.) Immortality bestowed Giant immortal so long as he touches land of his birth Typhon. Human down to thighs; coil of vipers below. Dragon heads from his hands. Bigger than mountains Giant with dragon-scales for feet

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