Cruelty to pregnant woman

Motif

Cruelty to pregnant woman.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Wounding or torturing. · view the constellation · filed as S185

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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
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Wounding or torturing.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Co-wife forces pregnant woman to perform lowly tasks. (Cf. T257.2.)King demands intercourse with woman in childbed

Filed beside it

Wounding by trapping with sharp knives (glass)Girl fastened by hair to rafter Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.)Torturing by beating Torturing by scratching Driving insane by keeping awake

Travels with

Pregnant woman crushed beneath chariot. (Cf. S185.)

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