μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Abandonment of aged.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 547
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 116
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Korean Zong 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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