μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Rivals contesting for the same girl.

Sex. · Love. · Love – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T92.11

Filed across the traditions
  • Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Rivals in love.

1 finer motif beneath it
Rival suitors discomfit each other
Filed beside it
Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies The triangle plot and its solutions. Two men in love with the same woman; two women with the same man Three victims of love. Girl loves boy; boy loves singing girl; singing girl loves the girl. All die of despair Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone Lover kills his rival brother Mother and daughter as rivals in love Rival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.) Sisters in love with same man Father and son as rivals in love Rival in love killed Two smiths as rivals for love of girl Older warrior preferred as suitor Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir

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