Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.)

Motif

Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Africa (Angola)Chatelain 30 No. 1.
general *Type 709

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Mother exposes child (for fear of jealous co-wife)

Filed beside it

Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives Father casts daughter forth 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

Travels with

Cruel mother

Carried in tale types

Snow White · ATU 70964 recorded variants

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