Father-daughter incest — Mythoi

Motif

Father-daughter incest.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 176 (The Tale of an Incestuous Daughter)
Danish De la Saussaye 166 (Helgi)
Italian Novella Rotunda
Greek Grote I 149
India *Thompson-Balys
Hindu Keith 75 (Prajapati)
Maori Dixon 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 relative 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.)

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 situation Holy water prevents a man from committing incest with his daughter. (Cf. T411.)

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