Abandonment on mountain

Motif

Abandonment on mountain.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S147

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2.23

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross.
general *Type 675

Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

1 finer motif beneath it

Abandonment on cliff

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 in pit Abandonment in bonds that cannot be loosed Children abandoned in box in potter's kiln Abandonment in stable

Carried in tale types

The Lazy Boy · ATU 6752 recorded variants

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