Father kills child.
Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S11.3
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Filed under Cruel father.
8 finer motifs beneath it
Man who doubts his children's paternity kills them. Murders wife and paramourFather kills deformed children. (Cf. S325.0.1.)Father kills sonCruel 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 sonFather throws boy into river (sea)Father orders son assassinated. (Cf. K512.)Father eats own children. (Cf. G10.)