Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives

Motif

Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.0.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative.

Filed beside it

Father casts daughter forth Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.)Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.)Evil stepmother casts boy forth Repulsed lover kills woman's child Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth Evil stepmother works stepdaughter to death in absence of merchant husband

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