μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cruelty to pregnant woman.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • India Thompson-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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Pregnant woman crushed beneath chariot. (Cf. S185.)

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