Hostile twins — Mythoi

Motif

Hostile twins.

Sex. · Care of children. · Care of children – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T685.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 2, Section II
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 46
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section XXII
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 6, Section C
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 6, Section LXXXVIII

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general *Dickson 98ff.
general *Krappe Balor 30, 143 n. 33, FL XXXIV 189ff.
general Gaster Oldest Stories 168.

Within the index

Filed under Twins. (Cf. T587.)

Filed beside it

Twin adventurers Twins who look exactly alike Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger

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