μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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 myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (West Hudson Bay)Boas BAM XV 223, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 87.
  • general *Encyc. Religion Ethics s. v. "adultery"
Within the index

Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Adulteress roughly treated by her loverQueen's illicit passion for diseased manAdulteress sells self to devil for moneyWife seduces husband's servant (pupil)King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent awayQueen begets son with duke while the king is in warWoman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead
Filed beside it
RapeUnknown (clandestine) paramourIncognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identityDay 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
Travels with
Supernatural person (adulterer) causes sun to stand still for nine months. (Cf. T481.)

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