Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved

Motif

Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S311

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IcelandicBoberg.
general *Frazer Old Testament II 437ff.

Within the index

Filed under Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king

Filed beside it

Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.)Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.)Destitute parents abandon children Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born Diseased child exposed Disobedient children cast forth Child cast out because of his stupidity Mother sells her child to heathen sailors Reasons for abandonment of children – miscellaneous

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