Father kills deformed children. (Cf. S325.0.1.)

Motif

Father kills deformed children. (Cf. S325.0.1.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S11.3.2

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Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 3

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Irish mythCross.

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Man who doubts his children's paternity kills them. Murders wife and paramour Father kills son Cruel father, learning that he is to be killed by his son, puts to death all children born to him. (Cf. M375.)Cruel king slays brother and brother's son Father throws boy into river (sea)Father orders son assassinated. (Cf. K512.)Father eats own children. (Cf. G10.)

Travels with

Monstrous (deformed) child exposed. (Cf. S11.3.2, T550.)

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