Person thrown into the water and abandoned — Mythoi

Motif

Person thrown into the water and abandoned.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S142

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 7
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 526
Tahiti Handy 408
Tonga Gifford 122
Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/45, 403, z-G. 3/1117).
general *Types 450, 506, 612, 667*, 707
general *BP I 79ff., 126ff., II 380ff., III 490ff.
general *Krappe Balor 12 n. 43
general *Fb "spinde" III 492b
general Dickson 86. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 167, *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

Filed beside it

Abandonment of aged Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask) 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Casting into water in sack (barrel) as punishment. (Cf. Q474, S142.) Cast-off wife thrown into water. (Cf. S142.)

Carried in tale types

The Three Golden Children (previously The Three Golden Sons) · ATU 707 128 recorded variants
Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 450 16 recorded variants
The Grateful Dead · ATU 505 8 recorded variants
The Three Snake-Leaves · ATU 612 6 recorded variants
The Wood Spirit's Foster-Son · ATU 667 2 recorded variants

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