μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Rival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.)

Sex. · Love. · Love – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T92.7

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Rivals in love.

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 Sisters in love with same man Father and son as rivals in love Rival in love killed Rivals contesting for the same girl 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Rival suitors kill each other over woman's love. Woman dies of broken heart and all three are buried in the same grave

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