μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "abandon"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 14
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishEspinosa II 99–105, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 142 – 45
  • GreekGrote I 109
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 327, 450, 708, 872*
  • general BP I 79ff., 115ff.
  • general *Dickson 35 n. 16
  • general *Sparnaay 41ff.
  • general Roberts 128. English: Wells 118 (Octovian)
Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Child abandoned in hollow treeAbandonment in tall treeMutilated man on horseback chased into the forestHusband abandons wife in childbirth in jungle. (Cf. S430.)
Filed beside it
Abandonment of agedExposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask)Person thrown into the water and abandonedAbandonment in desertAbandonment on an island. (Marooning.)Abandonment in pitAbandonment on mountainAbandonment in bonds that cannot be loosedChildren abandoned in box in potter's kilnAbandonment in stable
Travels with
Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.)Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.)Cast-off wife and child abandoned in forest. (Cf. S143.)Abandoned person in woods comforted by prophet and birds. (Cf. S143.)
Carried in tale types

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