μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 86, 330, 478f.
  • general *Type 873
  • general *Potter Sohrab and Rustem 6ff.
Within the index

Filed under Illegitimate children.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Sword left for posthumous son to kill father's murderer"Keep it if it is a girl; send it to me if it is a boy." Hero leaving girl says this of the prospective childFather orders the mother to send the expected illegitimate boy to him when he can perform certain featsHero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear
Filed beside it
Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.)Mother of illegitimate child given as pledge for his crimeTest of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.)Child betrays his own illegitimacyIllegitimate child taunted by playmatesIllegal to care for illegitimate child
Carried in tale types

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