The constellation
S11 Cruel father
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Cruel parents · S10 entry
beneath it
- Father mutilates children. (Cf. S160.) · S11.1 entry
- Jealous father sends son to upper world on stretching tree · S11.2 entry
- Father kills child · S11.3 entry
- Father plans child's death · S11.4 entry
- Father banishes son at request of fairy wife. (Cf. F302, S322.4.3.) · S11.5 entry
- Father flogs child · S11.6 entry
keeps company
- Sharp-elbowed women. Kill with their elbows · G341 entry
- Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her · K2111 entry
- Old person as helper · N825 entry
- Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.) · R245 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 47