Abandonment of aged

Motif

Abandonment of aged.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S140.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 18

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 547
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 116
JapaneseIkeda
KoreanZong in-Sob 186 No. 82.
general Type 981*
general *Encyc. Religion Ethics s. v. "Abandonment and exposure"
general *F. Brouga-Brey Revista de dialectologia y tradiciones populares (Madrid) I 496–573

Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

Filed beside it

Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask)Person thrown into the water and abandoned Abandonment in forest Abandonment in desert Abandonment on an island. (Marooning.)Abandonment in pit Abandonment on mountain Abandonment in bonds that cannot be loosed Children abandoned in box in potter's kiln Abandonment in stable

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