μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 30references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "marâtre"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 14
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 63 No. 453
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 6, III No. 10, V No. 8, Rotunda
  • GreekGrote I 103, 116
  • Jewish*Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 375
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • HinduPenzer I 185
  • ChineseFerguson 162, Eberhard FFC CXX 52f., 109, 125
  • JapaneseIkeda, Anesaki 324
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 201f. No. 97
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 209, Dixon 238f.
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 382ff.
  • Africa (Cameroon)Mansfield 228
  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 269 No. 81.
  • general *Types 403, 425, 432, 450, 451, 480, 502, 510, 511, 516, 590, 592, 706, 708, 709, 720
  • general BP I 42ff., 70ff., 79ff., 165ff., 207ff., 227ff., 412ff., *421, 427ff., 450ff., II 45ff., 229ff., 490ff., III 60ff., 137, 338f.
  • general **W. Lincke Das tiefmuttermotiv im Märchen der germanischen Völker (Berlin, 1933)
  • general *MacCulloch Childhood 150
  • general *Cox Cinderella passim
  • general Böklen Sneewittchenstudien passim
  • general *Arfert Unterschobene Braut passim
  • general Rösch FFC LXXVII 120
  • general Ranke FFC CXIV 154ff.
  • general *Child V 497 s. v. "stepmother"
  • general *Fb "stifmoder"
  • general Dh III 414ff. Irish myth: *Cross

Showing a bounded trail of 30 from 30 references.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel step- and foster relatives.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Adulteress and paramour plot against her stepson. They fear that he may betray themChildren enchanted by stepmother. (Cf. D683.)Cruel bird stepmother feeds young ones with thornsCruel stepmother feeds children with fish spines (thorns) to kill themGirl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly
Filed beside it
Cruel stepfatherCruel stepbrother. (Cf. K2211.3.)Cruel stepsister(s)Cruel foster fatherCruel foster son. (Cf. S22.1.1.)
Travels with
Quest for witch stepmother. (Cf. S31.)Curse by stepmother. (Cf. S31.)Cruel stepmother enchants stepdaughter on eve of wedding. (Cf. D5, S31.)
Carried in tale types

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