μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 116 (Sir Eglamour of Artois)
  • Danish Grundtvig No. 294
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 603
  • Oceanic Dixon 164 nn. 33–44
  • Indonesia Hambruch Malaiische Märchen 299, Bezemer Volksdichtung aus Indonesien 81
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 162.
  • general *Types 931, 933
  • general *Sparnaay 50ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 173ff., 182ff. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 90, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Incest.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Mother guilty of incest with son forgiven by Pope (Virgin Mary) Incognito son tempts mother to see whether all women are wicked Mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing Boy courts his mother, is driven off by father
Filed beside it
Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative Father-daughter 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
Carried in tale types
  • Oedipus · ATU 931 1 recorded variant

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