Cruel stepmother feeds children with fish spines (thorns) to kill them — Mythoi

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Cruel stepmother feeds children with fish spines (thorns) to kill them.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel step- and foster relatives. · view the constellation · filed as S31.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Cruel stepmother.

Filed beside it

Adulteress and paramour plot against her stepson. They fear that he may betray them Children enchanted by stepmother. (Cf. D683.) Cruel bird stepmother feeds young ones with thorns Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly

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