μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • GreekGrote I 103
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 256 No. 200a
  • KoreanZong 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 preservedIllegitimate 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 relativePregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be bornDiseased child exposedDisobedient children cast forthChild cast out because of his stupidityMother sells her child to heathen sailorsReasons for abandonment of children – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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