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Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Greek Euripides Hippolytus
  • S. Am. Indian (Viracocha) Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 551.
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Filed under Incest.

1 finer motif beneath it
Lustful stepfather
Filed beside it
Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative Father-daughter incest Mother-son incest Brother-sister incest Son-in-law seduces mother-in-law 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.)
Stepmother in love with stepson. (Cf. T418.)

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