Father kills child — Mythoi

Motif

Father kills child.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S11.3

Within the index

Filed under Cruel father.

8 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Father mutilates children. (Cf. S160.) Jealous father sends son to upper world on stretching tree Father plans child's death Father banishes son at request of fairy wife. (Cf. F302, S322.4.3.) Father flogs child

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