Treacherous mother marries ogre and plots against son — Mythoi

Motif

Treacherous mother marries ogre and plots against son.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S12.1

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl. II 392.
general *Type 590
general *BP III 1

Within the index

Filed under Cruel mother.

1 finer motif beneath it

Treacherous mother and paramour plan son's death

Filed beside it

Cruel mother kills child Mother orders son's death Cruel mother blinds son Cruel mother expels (drives away) child Cruel mother refuses children food Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

Carried in tale types

The Faithless Mother (previously The Prince and the Arm Bands) · ATU 590 432 recorded variants

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