Child abandoned in hollow tree

Motif

Child abandoned in hollow tree.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

EnglishWells 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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