μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Abandonment in bonds that cannot be loosed.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S148

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
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 on an island. (Marooning.) Abandonment in pit Abandonment on mountain Children abandoned in box in potter's kiln Abandonment in stable

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