Mother feeds newly-born illegitimate child to dog. (Cf. S312.)

Motif

Mother feeds newly-born illegitimate child to dog. (Cf. S312.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S12.2.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Italian NovellaRotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel mother kills child.

Filed beside it

Mother throws children into fire Mother forces child to break eating tabu: child dies

Travels with

Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)

wander