μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Foster parents fined for blemish on child Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son Parents kill son for slaying their foster son Foster father Foster mother Foster brother Foster sister Foster son
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fairy foster-mother. (Cf. P270.) Slave-driving punished. (Cf. P270, Q291.2, Q558.7.)

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