Undutiful children — Mythoi

Motif

Undutiful children.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P236

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 10
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 7
North American Indigenous Myths of the Cherokee , Quadruped Myths — Myth 15 15. the fourfooted tribes
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XII

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Parents and children.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritance Not daring to curse father directly, son does so indirectly Son deposes father and usurps throne Undutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and naked Undutiful son overawes his father by threats Undutiful son taught lesson showing his mother has suffered from him

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 son Mother and daughter Father and son Father and daughter Daughters flogged by parents Parents descend to hell instead of sons Children punished for fathers' sins

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