μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q482.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101.
Within the index

Filed under Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Queen forced to do menial service rescued by son Queen ordered to go and live in woodcutter's house as servant
Filed beside it
Princess serves as menial Nobleman after death must serve as menial Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside Queen made to scare crows away in fields Punishment: man must do women's work

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