μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Unknown (clandestine) paramour.

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T475

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Unknown paramour discovered by string clue Hero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child
Filed beside it
Rape 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

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