F54E. Manslaughter of father.

.14.-.16.22.24.26.-.31.

Not knowing who is in front of him, the young man kills his father.

Arabs of Egypt(?), Catalans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Ladins, Italians (Tuscany), Sardinians, French (Occitania), Irish, Sedang, Zyarai(?), Styeng(?), Thais(?), Javanese, Sundanese, (Lombok), Li, Ancient Greece, Greeks, Bulgarians, Slovenes, Gagauz, Macedonians, Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs, Russian written tradition, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Smolensk), Ukrainians (Ugric Rus, Hutsulshchyna, Galicia, Podolia, Pokuttya, Kiev, Kharkov), Belarusians, Hunzibs, Turks, Uzbeks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Finns, Western and Eastern (Inari) Saami, Icelanders.

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [As foretold by the prophecy, the hero kills his father and marries his mother]: El-Shamy 2004, no. 931: 626-627.

Southern Europe. Catalan (including Mallorca, but the plot is rare) [according to a prophecy, a young man kills his father and marries his mother]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, no. 931: 189; Portuguese [a father decides to get rid of his young son because he learned of a prophecy: the son will kill his father and marry the mother; the child is raised by strangers; he grows up and works for his real parents (without knowing it); accidentally or in self-defense, kills his father; marries the mother; the mother learns of what happened after reading the prophecy written on her son's back; the son goes blind from crying; regains his sight when a virgin brings him medicine - the saliva of a sialia (a small bird from the thrush family); marries the girl]: Cardigos 2006, no. 931: 243; Sardinians , Italians (Tuscany): Cirese, Serafini 1975, no. 931: 240; Spaniards , Ladins : Uther 2004(1), no. 931: 570-571.

Western Europe. French (Occitania, 1 entry) [boy kills father and marries mother {no details}]: Tenèze, Bru 2000, no. 931: 144; Irish : Uther 2004(1), no. 931: 570-571.

Burma - Indochina. Sedang [people multiplied, rice and fish themselves fell into the house and cooked, men and women copulated indiscriminately; Yabg ("Sky") sent Bok Glaih to destroy people with thunder and rain, everyone drowned; a woman and a dog were saved on a mountain; after the flood, the woman worked in the field, the dog urinated where the woman had been, she gave birth to a boy; he asks about the father, the mother is silent; one day he orders food to be taken to the father's plot; there is only a dog, he answers that he is the father, the boy does not believe, kills him; when he grows up, he marries the mother; or the woman gives birth to a son and a daughter, sends them to look for spouses, they meet each other in the dark, copulate; the mother (or sister) gave birth to many children; they got married, each couple has its own people; from the eldest – Viet, from the second – Lao, from the third – Cham, from the fourth – Tmoi (ethnic minorities of the Central Mountains)]: Dang Nghiem Van 1993: 324–326; Gie Thieng , Kayong , Mon-Khmer of southern Laos [(general summary; similar texts about a woman who gave birth to a dog after the flood; son kills father, marries mother)]: Dang Ngiem Van 1993: 328–329; Ziaray [as among the Banar; a woman and her dog, Koduan, escaped the flood in a drum; their son grew up, killed his father, married his mother; they became the ancestors of the Sogor ("drum") clan]: Nebeski-Wojkowitz 1956: 370 in Chesnov 1978: 164; stieng [a sick king promises his daughter to the one who cures him; a dog cures him, the king places his daughter and the dog on a raft, sends them out to sea; the raft lands on a mountain; the son who is born grows up, kills his father, marries his mother; their son and daughter become the ancestors of the mountaineers]: Patté 1906: 169 in Chesnov 1978: 164; Thais (?): Velder 1968, no. 50 in Uther 2004(1), no. 931: 570-571.

Malaysia - Indonesia. Javanese [a pig drank the urine of King Praboe Moendingkawati, gave birth to Dewi Sepirasa; astrologers said that the girl would bring misfortune, the king drove her out into the forest, giving her the dog Blangwajoenjang; she lost her spindle whorl, promised to marry the one who found it, her dog brought her the spindle whorl; she bore him a son, Raden Soewoengrasa; he killed the dog, because he threatened all the animals of the forest; the mother said that he had killed his father; the mother and son left the forest separately; they met, only the mother recognized her son; the hermit advised to set an impossible condition for marriage; RS almost built a dam and a boat overnight, but the hermit raised the sun at night; the mother and son separated again, did not recognize each other when they came back, got married, they have three sons; the mother recognized her son by the scar on his forehead; the mother left in despair, drowned; the son became the progenitor of the Kalang, a caste of central Java accused of incest]: Knebel 1894: 489-505 in Lessa 1961: 181; Sundanese [Raden Sungging Perbangkara had a pig-wife, gave birth to a daughter, Dewi Rara Sami; she grew up, dropped her spinning wheel, promised to marry whoever would bring her; a dog brought her; by the dog DRS gave birth to a son named Sangkuriang; he hunted with the dog, not knowing that it was his father; the dog refused to chase the pig (i.e. S.'s grandmother), S. killed it, gave the meat to the mother under the guise of venison; the secret was revealed, the mother threw a stick at her son's head, drove him away; became a young woman; S. returned, was going to marry DRS, she recognized him by the scar on her head; promised to marry him if he would create a lake and a boat overnight; lit up the night sky, S. quit his job; drowned when the lake overflowed its banks; the boat became a forested mountain, the lake dried up]: Braginsky 1972: 135-137; (cf. Lombok [the king of Java, Daha, urinated in a hole in a stone, a pig drank the urine, gave birth to a girl; the latter sat at the spinning wheel, dropped the spool, promised to marry even a dog if he would bring the spool; the dog brought it, the girl gave birth to a boy by him; the son and the dog killed a pig while hunting, the mother said who the pig was; ashamed, the son also killed the dog; the mother gave her son a ring, told her son to marry the girl to whom the ring would fit; the son looked in vain for a bride, at home the ring fit his mother, he married her; the mother went to Sumbawa, married the ruler, became the progenitor of the royal line; the son went to Sulawesi, became the progenitor of the Bugis and Makassar]: Eerde 1902: 31-40 in Isis 1998: 151).

China - Korea. Li (Hainan) [1) a nobleman's legs hurt; he promises his daughter to the one who will save him from suffering; it was a dog who did it; the father put the dog and his daughter in a boat and sent them out to sea; the boat landed on the deserted island of Hainan; the dog hunted, his wife cultivated the land; she gave birth to a boy; he grew up, killed the dog with a stick when it got sick, refused to go hunting; the mother said that she was returning to her homeland, told her son to marry a girl he would meet; she herself went into the mountains, got a tattoo, her son did not recognize her; their descendants are the Hiai Ao; they apply tattoos and make houses in the shape of a boat; 2) the dog helped the princess recover from an illness, and by agreement became her husband; they sailed to Hainan, she gave birth to two children; not knowing that the dog was their father, the children killed him; dying, the dog answered his elder brother that his surname was Wang, and his younger brother that his surname was Fu; the mother got a tattoo so that she would not be recognized, got along with her sons, and had offspring]: Isis 1998: 150.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [An oracle warned the Theban king Laius that his son would kill him; drunk, Laius nevertheless had sex with his wife Jocasta (or Epicasta); he gave the newborn boy to a shepherd, ordering him to pierce the baby's ankles with a buckle and throw him away; he abandoned the child in the forest; he was picked up by the shepherds of the Corinthian king Polybus, brought to his wife Periboea, she named the child Oedipus ( swollen feet ); in Delphi, E. learned that he would kill his father and marry his mother; he left the city and on the road met Laius's chariot; the charioteer treated him roughly, E. killed both him and Laius. Hera sent the monster Sphinx to Thebes; in order to get rid of her, it was necessary to solve a riddle, and she devoured those who did not; King Creon promised the one who solved the mystery the widow of King L. and power over Thebes; E. solved the mystery, Sphinga threw herself into the abyss, E. became king and married I., who gave birth to two sons and two daughters; 20 years later the Delphic oracle demanded that L.'s murderer be expelled from Thebes in order to stop the epidemic; everything became clear, E. blinded himself with a clasp from the dress of I., who had hanged herself, and was expelled from Thebes]; Greeks [a rich man has three daughters; in order to marry them off, he hung their portraits in front of his house; a captain asks for the youngest, Rose, as his wife; the father wanted to start with the eldest, but agreed; on their wedding night, a ghost comes out of the wall and says that Rose is destined to become her father's wife and marry her son; the captain cancels the marriage with Rose and takes the eldest of the sisters; the same again, another suitor takes the middle one; R. comes to her elder sister, asks permission to take her place in bed at night, asks her husband why he left R.; he tells her everything; the same with the middle sister; R. hired people to kill her father; an apple tree grew on his grave, R. ate the apple, became pregnant, gave birth to a boy; stabbed him in the chest, lowered the coffin into the sea; sailors fished him out, the captain came out and adopted him; the young man grew up, came to the city where his mother lived, married her without knowing it; they have children; the mother discovered a scar on her husband's chest, understood everything; committed suicide]: Legrand 1881: 107-113; Bulgarians (one entry) [orisnitsa predict that the newborn will kill his father and marry the mother; the parents abandon the child in the forest; he is found and raised by a shepherd; he comes to the house of his real parents; kills his father and marries the mother; spouses find out who they are]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 931: 344; Gagauz[the mother of a newborn hears the Lušnitsy (=Lufusnitsy; three maidens who write a person’s fate) predict that the child will marry the mother; the parents let him go to sea in a box; the monks caught him and raised him; he came to his father’s village, hired himself out as a guard in the vineyard; his father came for grapes, did not answer three times, the youth shot him; he was told to marry the widow; from his story the wife understood that he was her son; he went back to the monks; they locked him in a dungeon, threw the keys into the sea; when the keys are found, his sin will be forgiven; a few days later a fisherman found the keys in the belly of a fish; the youth was released]: Moshkov 1904, no. 54: 96-98; Macedonians , Slovenes , Hungarians , Romanians : Uther 2004(1), no. 931: 570–571.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Smolensk), Ukrainians (Ugric Rus, Galicia, Podolia, Pokuttya, Kiev, Kharkov), Belarusians [ The Incestuous Man (Andrew of Crete) : at the birth of a boy it is predicted that he will kill his father and marry his mother, he is thrown into the water, but the prediction still comes true; the sin is atoned for by severe repentance]: SUS 1979, No. 931: 238; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Kalgalaksha; brief summary of the text from the archive of the Karelian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [at the birth of a boy it is predicted that he will kill his father and marry his mother; the mother rips open the child's stomach, throws him in the forest; the child ends up with another family; [at a chance meeting, kills his father, marries his mother]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, no. 176: 377; Russian written tradition [the "Oedipus plot" is represented in Old Russian literature by a group of so-called stories about an incestuous person, which include "The Tale of Andrew of Crete", "Jerome's Tale of Judas the Traitor" and "The Tale of Pope Gregory"]: Klimova 1989: 3; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchyna) [the wife gave birth; an old man enters: this boy will kill his father; the husband persuaded his wife to put the baby in a chest, give him a pacifier, a jug of milk and send him out to sea; a fisherman caught it; the rich man refused to take it, the poor man took it, although he had many children of his own; the guy grew up, asks why he is Nayda; went to look for his real parents; hired himself out to them, not knowing who they were; the landlord orders the corn to be guarded from thieves; a thief comes, the boy does not shoot; the landlord is dissatisfied; the next night the boy shoots and kills the one who came, and it was the landlord himself; the widow proposes to the boy to marry her; but the boy does not want to, and the priest asks: what if this is your son?]: Zinchuk 2006a, no. 125: 380-382; Czechs : Uther 2004(1), no. 931: 570-571.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Gunzib people [a husband forgot his knife at a campsite, comes back and sees a man there; he says that the newcomer’s son will kill his father and marry his mother; the couple leave the child in a hollow tree; a shepherd finds him; the children tease him for being fatherless, he leaves and gets hired to guard the flock; the owner comes to check, the young man thinks it’s an animal, shoots and kills the newcomer; the elders tell the young man to stay and replace the dead owner; the widow marries the young man; he says that he was found in the hollow tree, the woman realizes that the young man is her son, both commit suicide]: Berg 1995, no. 25: 266-274; Turks (1 entry) [when the padishah’s wife finally becomes pregnant, both dream that the future son will marry the mother; the baby is left in the mountains; the shepherd finds and raises him; learning that he is a foundling, the young man goes off to look for his parents; in the city he gets into a fight and, defending himself, kills his father; having killed a man-eating wolf, he marries the widowed queen, i.e. his mother; an epidemic begins and people say that this is punishment for incest; the mother and son tell each other the dream they had, find out who they are and commit suicide]: Eberhard, Boratav 1053, No. 142: 156.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [the king of the country of Kanyon has daughters Mahliyo, Mukhabbat and Ikbal (the youngest); the king refuses the suitors; the princesses decided to dress up as horsemen, mounted their horses and galloped away; there is an inscription on the stone: to the right - you will not return, straight ahead - you are unlikely to reach, to the left - you will return; I. galloped to the right; the sisters agreed to marry the first people they met; I. met a bear; bore him a son: the arms and head of a man, the legs and body of a bear; at the age of 14, he asked about his father; I.: there is a father, but he is not a man and robs villages at night; the son threw aside the millstone that covered the entrance to the cave, killed the bear, and went to look for his father; when he returned, I. reported that the bear was his father; the young man and his mother came to the country of Kanyon; the plowman heard her story and reported to the king; he returned the daughter, and named her son Ayik palvan (A.; "bear-hero"); earlier the king promised a reward for the return of his daughter; but decided that it was enough for the plowman if he let him out of the dungeon; A. began to play with cast-iron alchiks, wounded many of his peers; the vizier advises to send him to a place from which no one returns; let I. pretend to be ill and ask for roots from the land of the divs; on the way A. meets and takes as a companion a man playing with millstones; a man playing with mountains; the old man says that one can get to the land of the divs only on horseback; the friends stopped by a plane tree, they cook in turns; a dwarf crawled out of the hollow, entangled the cook with his beard, ate everything; the same on the second day; when it was A.'s turn, he killed the dwarf; the friends came across a hole, a rooster crowing is heard from the bottom; the heroes are afraid, A. climbed down on a rope; sent the kidnapped girl up; when he ordered to lift him up, his companions threw a rope; the old man tells him to go to the plane tree, on it is the nest of the Simurgh bird; the dragon eats her two chicks every time; A. killed the dragon, the Simurgh carried him to the ground, shows the way to the country of the divs; there A. met a plowman, offered to plow for him, harnessed the divs, plowed the field with them; pulled out and brought the tree of life to the country of Canyon; plowed all the steppes with the divs; married the girl he saved from the underworld]: Khabunova 2017: 119-135 (=Afzalov et al. 1972(1): 434-444, =Sheverdin 1984: 167-177, =Konovalov, Stepanov 1986: 187-197).

Baltoscandia. Latvians [ At the birth of a boy it is prophesied that he will kill his father and marry his mother . The mother throws him into the water, but he escapes and the prophecy is fulfilled]: Arijs, Medne 1977, no. 931: 333; Lithuanians , Finns , Icelanders : Uther 2004(1), no. 931: 570-571; Western Sami (Varanger): Qvigstad 1925, no. 931: 25; Eastern Sami (Inari) [an elderly Skolt Sami man and his wife turned into bears in winter so as not to waste their supplies; one day their own sons surrounded their den; man to wife: you will be saved, but to become a man again, jump over my skin; but she touched the skin and the claws on her feet did not turn into nails; asked the sons why they killed their father; told everything]: Koskimies, Itkonen 2019: 112-113.