μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Abandonment in pit.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S146

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic Lagerholm 161–63, Boberg
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Hebrew Genesis ch. 37, *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 41.
  • general Chauvin VII 108 No. 379bis
Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Abandonment in well Abandonment in cave
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 on an island. (Marooning.) 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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