Abandonment in desert — Mythoi

Motif

Abandonment in desert.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S144

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 310
general BP I 97ff.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

1 finer motif beneath it

Abandonment alone on foreign coast

Filed beside it

Abandonment of aged Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask) Person thrown into the water and abandoned Abandonment in forest Abandonment on an island. (Marooning.) Abandonment in pit Abandonment on mountain Abandonment in bonds that cannot be loosed Children abandoned in box in potter's kiln Abandonment in stable

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