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Motif

Adultery.

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T481

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-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 lover Queen's illicit passion for diseased man Adulteress sells self to devil for money Wife seduces husband's servant (pupil) King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away Queen begets son with duke while the king is in war Woman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead
Filed beside it
Rape Unknown (clandestine) paramour Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Supernatural person (adulterer) causes sun to stand still for nine months. (Cf. T481.)

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