Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.)

Motif

Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.3

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 246 No. 36, (Zulu): Callaway 237.

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Jealous co-wife demands murder of woman's children Jealous concubine plots against real wife's daughter

Filed beside it

Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives Father casts daughter forth Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.)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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Treacherous co-wife (concubine)

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