μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Unknown paramour discovered by string clueHero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child
Filed beside it
RapeIncognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identityAdulteryDay 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 promiscuityMan has a son not his wife's; wife has a daughter not her husband's. Children become loversQueen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with herBlack nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity

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