Boy sickens from grief at mother's death

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Boy sickens from grief at mother's death.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P231.1

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Irish mythCross.

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Filed under Mother and son.

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Son warns mother. (Hamlet.)Mother-love Mother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plot Mother reveals fact that son is offspring of supernatural father Mother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites

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