μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Husband abandons wife in childbirth in jungle. (Cf. S430.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S143.4

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Abandonment in forest.

Filed beside it
Child abandoned in hollow tree Abandonment in tall tree Mutilated man on horseback chased into the forest
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Disposal of cast-off wife

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