Person thrown into the water and abandoned

Motif

Person thrown into the water and abandoned.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicBoberg
ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV No. 7
India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 526
TahitiHandy 408
TongaGifford 122
TuamotuStimson 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

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 707128 recorded variants
Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 45016 recorded variants
The Grateful Dead · ATU 5058 recorded variants
The Three Snake-Leaves · ATU 6126 recorded variants
The Wood Spirit's Foster-Son · ATU 6672 recorded variants

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