Cruel mother — Mythoi

Motif

Cruel mother.

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

Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 14
Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishKeller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 115, 148f., Espinosa II Nos. 115f.
Italian Novella*Rotunda
EskimoRink 389, Kroeber JAFL XII 181
Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 76 No. 12, 168 No. 24, 190 No. 28, (Angola): Chatelain 30 No. 1.
general *Types 511, 590, 706, 765, 781
general *BP I 551, III 2
general *Boje 62f.
general *Child V 475 s. v. "Cruel". Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "mère"

Within the index

Filed under Cruel parents.

7 finer motifs beneath 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 Cruel mother refuses children food Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

Filed beside it

Cruel father

Travels with

Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.)

wander