🧩 BND Motif Index · M1266
Like father, like son
A child is said to follow his parent into the same crime or disgrace, so the family line explains him and the wished-for ending is the same: may he share his father's cell.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Family and upbringing
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 It runs in the family
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “He needs to follow in his father’s footsteps (minus the ultimate pardon).” “May he end up in prison with his father!” “Put him in the same cell as his pappy.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-26 “He should be sent to prison to share a cell with his father.”
M1266 · first seen 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works