Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.)

Motif

Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S313

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

GreekGrote I 103
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Nutt FLR IV 1ff., Gaster Thespis 255

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)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

Carried in tale types

The Daughter of the Sun · ATU 8982 recorded variants

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