Mother and son.
Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P231
Motif
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Filed under Parents and children.
7 finer motifs beneath it
Boy sickens from grief at mother's deathSon warns mother. (Hamlet.)Mother-loveMother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plotMother reveals fact that son is offspring of supernatural fatherMother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic sonMother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites
Filed beside it
Mother prefers son, father daughterMother dislikes her children in forced marriageQueen dislikes son who is unlike her and loves a poor girl: plots against himMother and daughterFather and sonFather and daughterUndutiful childrenDaughters flogged by parentsParents descend to hell instead of sonsChildren punished for fathers' sins