μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Exposure astride a log of wood floated down river.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S141.3

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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
Man springs ashore and pushes companion in boat out to sea Father saves himself in storm and forgets his two children. They are abandoned in a boat

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