Adulteress and paramour plot against her stepson. They fear that he may betray them

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Adulteress and paramour plot against her stepson. They fear that he may betray them.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel step- and foster relatives. · view the constellation · filed as S31.1

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general Fischer-Bolte 214.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel stepmother.

Filed beside it

Children enchanted by stepmother. (Cf. D683.) Cruel bird stepmother feeds young ones with thorns Cruel stepmother feeds children with fish spines (thorns) to kill them Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly

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