Cruel father — Mythoi

Motif

Cruel father.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 47 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Jewish *Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 326 n. 177.
general *Types 451, 516, 671, 706, 725, 870
general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 120
general *Schlauch Constance and other accused Queens 40

Within the index

Filed under Cruel parents.

6 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sharp-elbowed women. Kill with their elbows Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her Old person as helper Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.)

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