Cruel mother blinds son

Motif

Cruel mother blinds son.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S12.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 6
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CIX
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 69
Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 64LXIV. THE LEECH.

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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 99, Rasmussen I 312, III 201, Holm 31.

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Filed under Cruel mother.

Filed beside it

Treacherous mother marries ogre and plots against son Cruel mother kills child Mother orders son's death Cruel mother expels (drives away) child Cruel mother refuses children food Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

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