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Motif

Stepmother irritates two stepsons so that one kills the other.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.4.3

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.
Within the index

Filed under Evil stepmother casts boy forth.

Filed beside it
Banishment (death) of stepchildren demanded as cure for feigned illness Evil stepmother orders stepdaughter to be killed
Travels with
Father banishes son at request of fairy wife. (Cf. F302, S322.4.3.)

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