Parents descend to hell instead of sons

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Parents descend to hell instead of sons.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P241

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IrishO'Suilleabhain 53.

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Filed under Parents and children.

1 finer motif beneath it

Pious children save their parents from hell

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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 Undutiful children Daughters flogged by parents Children punished for fathers' sins

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