μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Abandonment on an island. (Marooning.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S145

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "abandon"
  • French Canadian Morin JAFL XXX 147
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 53 n. 5 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII
  • Papua Ker 7, 112
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 358
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Holm 56, Rasmussen III 200, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 637, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 163, 166
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson CColl II 405ff.
  • general *Type 506, 890
  • general BP III 490ff.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

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 in desert Abandonment in pit Abandonment on mountain Abandonment in bonds that cannot be loosed Children abandoned in box in potter's kiln Abandonment in stable
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Impostor leaves hero alone on island. (Cf. S145.) Treachery punished by banishment to desert isle. (Cf. S145.) Cast-off wife abandoned on island. (Cf. S145.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Cupbearer of the gods Creation of diver (bird) Man carried by bird Transformation: ant to person Future revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.) Rain produced by prayer. (Cf. D1391.1, D2141.0.7.1.) Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punished Death by thunderbolt as punishment

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