μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.)

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T484

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
  • general *Schoepperle I 254ff.
Within the index

Filed under Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it
Rape Unknown (clandestine) paramour 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.) 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.)
Sex hospitality. Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion

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