Father kills son — Mythoi

Motif

Father kills son.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S11.3.3

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Father kills child.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Father kills son (for stealing) Father murders his two sons for whining

Filed beside it

Man who doubts his children's paternity kills them. Murders wife and paramour Father kills deformed children. (Cf. S325.0.1.) 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.)

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