Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother — Mythoi

Motif

Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Heroes. · Brothers as heroes. · view the constellation · filed as Z210.1

Filed across the traditions

Oceanic Dixon 138 n. 12
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 319 n. 152, (California): Gayton and Newman 91, 95
general *Dickson passim
general Krappe MLN XLVII 493ff.
general S. Am. Indian (Bakuiri): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 145.

Within the index

Filed under Brothers as heroes.

Filed beside it

Warriors identically equipped (brothers) Dreadnaughts. Brothers deliberately seek dangers they have been warned against. Triumph Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero Supernatural origin of hero: magic conception. (Cf. T510.) Eldest brother as hero

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