Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly

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Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel step- and foster relatives. · view the constellation · filed as S31.5

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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general *Roberts 136.

Within the index

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

Carried in tale types

Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 4508 recorded variants

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