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 116 (Sir Eglamour of Artois)
  • DanishGrundtvig No. 294
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 603
  • OceanicDixon 164 nn. 33–44
  • IndonesiaHambruch 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 wickedMother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testingBoy courts his mother, is driven off by father
Filed beside it
Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relativeFather-daughter 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
Carried in tale types
  • Oedipus · ATU 9311 recorded variant

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