Living children buried with dead mother.
Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Murders. · view the constellation · filed as S123.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 20
- Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, EXCURSUS
- IrishCuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Ch. 12THE AWAKENING OF ULSTER
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XVIIIXVIII. The Perils of the Soul
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- general Child I 180, 185, IV 450a (No. 15).