Son gives mother as hostage — Mythoi

Motif

Son gives mother as hostage.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel children and grandchildren. · view the constellation · filed as S21.3

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Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel son.

Filed beside it

Son buries aged mother alive Son blinds father. (Cf. Q451.7, S165.) King banishes mother to stables Cruel son tries to sterilize father

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