Father saves himself in storm and forgets his two children. They are abandoned in a boat.
Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S141.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index
Filed under Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask).
Filed beside it
ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “abandoned” · wander