μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Parents and children.

7 finer motifs beneath 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 (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites
Filed beside it
Mother prefers son, father daughter Mother dislikes her children in forced marriage Queen dislikes son who is unlike her and loves a poor girl: plots against him Mother and daughter Father and son Father and daughter Undutiful children Daughters flogged by parents Parents descend to hell instead of sons Children punished for fathers' sins

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