μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Abandonment in tall tree.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • 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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