Cruel mother refuses children food

Motif

Cruel mother refuses children food.

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

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.

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

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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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