Father casts daughter forth

Motif

Father casts daughter forth.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 5
Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 6
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 22
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 25
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 9

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

SpanishEspinosa II Nos. 107f., 154, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 120–123.

Within the index

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

5 finer motifs beneath it

Father who wanted son exposes (murders) daughter 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

Filed beside it

Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives 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

Carried in tale types

The Boys with Extraordinary Names · ATU 883C1 recorded variant

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