μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.
  • general *Schoepperle I 254ff.
Within the index

Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it
RapeUnknown (clandestine) paramourIncognito 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.)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
Sex hospitality. Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion

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