μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cruel abandonments and exposures.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
11 finer motifs beneath it
Abandonment of aged 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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