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Father who wanted son exposes (murders) daughter.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Greek Fox 56 (Atalanta)
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 203.
Within the index

Filed under Father casts daughter forth.

Filed beside it
Father casts daughter forth when she will not marry him. (Cf. T411.1.) Father condemns daughter to death because he believes her unchaste Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom Boy turned out of doors by father

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