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In an Irish legend three brothers have intercourse with their sister the night before they attempt to kill the king, their father; but they are themselves killed by him. The son resulting from this triple incest has intercourse with his mother, but the inference is that he represents his grandfather, the king. The legend is offered as an almost 'flawless mythological example supporting … one of Freud's sociological hypotheses'.