Child abandoned in hollow tree — Mythoi

Motif

Child abandoned in hollow tree.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S143.1

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 126 (Lai Le Freine)
Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Abandonment in forest.

Filed beside it

Abandonment in tall tree Mutilated man on horseback chased into the forest Husband abandons wife in childbirth in jungle. (Cf. S430.)

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