Cruel mother refuses children food — Mythoi

Motif

Cruel mother refuses children food.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S12.6

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Central) Boas RBAE VI 625, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 168
Cook Islands Clark 77.

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 blinds son Cruel mother expels (drives away) child Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

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