Parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.)

Motif

Parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel children and grandchildren. · view the constellation · filed as S22

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 myth*Cross
Icelandic*Boberg
JewishNeuman
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 35, 1148, II 651, 1101, 1169
TongaGifford 189.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel children and grandchildren.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Parricide to obtain kingship Father learns that his son is planning to kill him. Gives his son a weapon to do so. Son repents

Filed beside it

Children sell mother Child hides food from starving parents Cruel son Prince plans to kill wicked father for cruelty Cruel grandson

Travels with

Parricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.)

Carried in tale types

Parricide · ATU 931A1 recorded variant

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