Children enchanted by stepmother. (Cf. D683.) — Mythoi

Motif

Children enchanted by stepmother. (Cf. D683.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel step- and foster relatives. · view the constellation · filed as S31.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel stepmother.

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Transformation by magician

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