Cruel mother blinds son — Mythoi

Motif

Cruel mother blinds son.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

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

Within the index

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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