μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 mythCross.
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.)Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.)Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuityQueen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with herBlack nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity

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