μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Destitute parents abandon children.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S321

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Greek Grote I 103
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 256 No. 200a
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 43 No. 25.
  • general *Encyc. Religion Ethics s. v. "Abandonment and exposure"
  • general *Type 327
  • general *BP I 123
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Children abandoned in famine
Filed beside it
Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.) Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.) Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.) 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

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