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Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Fines imposed for rape Man unwittingly ravishes his own sister. (Cf. N365.3.) Wild man as ravisher of women. (Cf. F567.) Husband sends wife poison to avoid having her ravished by the enemy
Filed beside it
Unknown (clandestine) paramour Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity Adultery Day husband: night husband. Woman has two husbands: juggler at home only at night, robber only in day. They do not know about each other. (Similarly, day wife: night wife.) Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.) Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity Man has a son not his wife's; wife has a daughter not her husband's. Children become lovers Queen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with her Black nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Transformation to be put in food-bag Transformation to seduce Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) Magic garment (robe, tunic) Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) Killed game revives and flies away Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Person eats self up Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving Person frightened into falling down a cliff Deceptive scratching contest

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