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

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“Surpassing all the rest were Porphyrion and Alcyoneus, who was even immor- tal so long as he fought in the land of his birth. He also drove away the cows of the Sun from Erythia. Now the gods had an oracle that none of the giants could perish at the hand of gods, but that with the help of a mortal they would be made an end of. Learning of this, Earth sought for a simple to prevent the giants from being destroyed even by sqq.).”

The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 18references

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.

  • EnglishWells 129 (Emare)
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 6
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "père"
  • ItalianBasile 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
  • IndiaThompson-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
Father casts daughter forth when she will not marry him. (Cf. T411.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: god to animalTransformation to escape deathMagic helmetHelmet renders invisible. (Cf. D1101.4.)Immortality bestowedGiant immortal so long as he touches land of his birthTyphon. Human down to thighs; coil of vipers below. Dragon heads from his hands. Bigger than mountainsGiant with dragon-scales for feet

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