Mother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son — Mythoi

Motif

Mother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P231.6

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Mother and son.

Filed beside it

Boy sickens from grief at mother's death 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 commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites

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