μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Encyc. Religion Ethics s. v. "Abandonment and exposure"
  • general *Nutt FLR IV 1ff.
  • general Frazer Apollodorus I 252 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VII
  • general Aarne FFC XXIII 63
  • general *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff., 91. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it
Child of incest exposed. (Cf. T410.) Violated woman's child exposed Posthumous child to be exposed Woman abandons baby boy (of which she was artificially impregnated) in forest
Filed beside it
Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Mother feeds newly-born illegitimate child to dog. (Cf. S312.) Illegitimate children
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation (general) Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Seed mixed with blood as love charm. (Cf. D971.) Ascent to sky on cloud Two persons with bodies joined. Siamese twins Remarkably strong man. (Strong John). (Cf. X940, X959.1.) Poison of hydra corrodes the skin Cycnus. Cuts off heads of strangers in order to build temple of heads

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