The constellation
P231 Mother and son
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The same sky, in words
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- Parents and children · P230 entry
beneath it
- Boy sickens from grief at mother's death · P231.1 entry
- Son warns mother. (Hamlet.) · P231.2 entry
- Mother-love · P231.3 entry
- Mother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plot · P231.4 entry
- Mother reveals fact that son is offspring of supernatural father · P231.5 entry
- Mother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son · P231.6 entry
- Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites · P231.7 entry