Posthumous child to be exposed — Mythoi

Motif

Posthumous child to be exposed.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S312.3

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)

Filed beside it

Child of incest exposed. (Cf. T410.) Violated woman's child exposed Woman abandons baby boy (of which she was artificially impregnated) in forest

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