Cruel son — Mythoi

Motif

Cruel son.

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

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 139, 151, 157
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 287, 547, 632
Africa (Fang)Einstein 161.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel children and grandchildren.

5 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Children sell mother Child hides food from starving parents Parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.)Prince plans to kill wicked father for cruelty Cruel grandson

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