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* After they [[The Bible|escaped from Sodom]], Lot's daughters believed that since their fiances were dead, they wouldn't have the opportunity to have children. Having children being [[Serious Business]] back then, they got their father drunk and raped him in order to have his children. Nine months later, they each had a son, Moab and Ben-Ammi. The former's name sounds something like the Hebrew word for "from Father" and latter's name means (literally) "son of my paternal uncle" or (figuratively) "son of my people" in Hebrew. Another version had that the daughters believed that they and their father were literally the last people left alive. Given that idea and the fact that they were seemingly the last living women and their father the last living man, they felt they had a duty to repopulate the world. Some critics contend that the Hebrews made up this story to put dirt on their enemies, the Moabites and the Ammonites, who were much like the Hebrews in all respects except religion, despite the fact that the Davidic line comes from the Moabites via Ruth. Also, these particular acts came before the institution of the sexual laws in Leviticus; as such, they may serve as a kind of retroactive [[An Aesop|Aesop]]: "This is what happened to people back before we had those laws against sleeping with close relatives, so aren't you glad we have them now?"
* From the ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' trilogy. This is {{spoiler|Felicity's}} backstory. When she got "too old," Daddy dumped her, later taking in another young relative as a "ward"...
* The father threatening marriage is found in many medieval [[Chivalric Romance]]s. These include ''Vitae Duorum Offarum'', ''Emare'', ''Mai and Beaflor'', and ''La Belle Helene de Constantinople''. These are close to the fairy tale ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130727072035/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/ The Maiden Without Hands]''—so close, in fact, that the Grimm Brothers are often suspected of [[Bowdlerise|bowdlerising]] the tale with a [[Deal with the Devil]].
* ''Gregorius or The Good Sinner'', a 12th-century German epic poem by Hartmann von Aue. The orphaned son and daughter of the ruler of Aquitaine [[Brother-Sister Incest|have an illict love affair]], resulting in the birth of a baby son, who is put into a box and cast adrift. He lands on an island in the Channel, where he is christened Gregorius. After growing up he becomes a knight and comes to the aid of the queen of a besieged city, whom he marries. It is then discovered that she is his mother. She becomes a nun, he a penitent hermit who has himself chained to a rock for seventeen years, after which he is elected pope. Thomas Mann retold the story in his novel ''Der Erwählte'' (The Chosen One, 1951). Here Gregorius and his mother/wife Sibylla have two daughters.
* There's an e. e. cummings poem about this: 'annie died the other day'.
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