Twins. (Cf. T587.) — Mythoi

Motif

Twins. (Cf. T587.)

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

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Filed across the traditions

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 adventurers Hostile twins Twins who look exactly alike Twins: 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 son Devil substitutes himself for new-born child Quadruplet heroes Triplets (as heroes) Children sleep in village dormitory

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.)

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