μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general Saintyves "Les Jumeaux, dans l'ethnographie et la mythologie" Revue anthropologique XXV (1925) 54–9
Within the index

Filed under Care of children – miscellaneous motifs.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Twin adventurersHostile twinsTwins who look exactly alikeTwins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger
Filed beside it
Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.)Hero a posthumous sonDevil substitutes himself for new-born childQuadruplet heroesTriplets (as heroes)Children sleep in village dormitory
Travels with
Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.)

wander