Abandonment in tall tree

Motif

Abandonment in tall tree.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S143.2

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys
general S. Am. Indian (Mundurucú): Horton BBAE CXLIII (3) 294, (Sherente): Lowie ibid. (1) 515.

Within the index

Filed under Abandonment in forest.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tortoise placed in tall tree and left

Filed beside it

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

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