μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 139, 151, 157
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel mother.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Mother feeds newly-born illegitimate child to dog. (Cf. S312.)Mother throws children into fireMother forces child to break eating tabu: child dies
Filed beside it
Treacherous mother marries ogre and plots against sonMother orders son's deathCruel mother blinds sonCruel mother expels (drives away) childCruel mother refuses children foodMother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

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