μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cruel stepmother.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "marâtre"
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 14
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 63 No. 453
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 6, III No. 10, V No. 8, Rotunda
  • Greek Grote I 103, 116
  • Jewish *Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 375
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Hindu Penzer I 185
  • Chinese Ferguson 162, Eberhard FFC CXX 52f., 109, 125
  • Japanese Ikeda, Anesaki 324
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 201f. No. 97
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 209, Dixon 238f.
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson CColl II 382ff.
  • Africa (Cameroon) Mansfield 228
  • Jamaica Beckwith 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

…and 2 more.

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 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 Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly
Filed beside it
Cruel stepfather Cruel stepbrother. (Cf. K2211.3.) Cruel stepsister(s) Cruel foster father Cruel foster son. (Cf. S22.1.1.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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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