μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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 176 (The Tale of an Incestuous Daughter)
  • DanishDe la Saussaye 166 (Helgi)
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • GreekGrote I 149
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • HinduKeith 75 (Prajapati)
  • MaoriDixon 164 n. 46
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 198.
  • general *Köhler-Bolte II 190ff.
  • general *Krappe Review of Religion (1941) 3–17
  • general Heptameron No. 30. – Irish myth: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 74f.
Within the index

Filed under Incest.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Lecherous father. Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter. (Manekine.)Girl got with child by intoxicated father
Filed beside it
Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relativeMother-son incestBrother-sister incestSon-in-law seduces mother-in-lawLustful stepmotherMan marries his aunt (mother's sister)Youth attempts to seduce his grandmotherBrother-in-law seduces (Cf.ks to seduce) sister-in-law
Travels with
Enigmatic statement betrays incest. (Cf. T411.) Woman, recognizing cleric as her son by her father (Fiachna), gives him a drink of milk and says, "I give drink to my brother; he is Fiachna's son, he is Fiachna's grandson; his mother is Fiachna's daughter." The son's reply shows that he understands the situationHoly water prevents a man from committing incest with his daughter. (Cf. T411.)

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