μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.
  • general *Types 592
Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it
Banishment (death) of stepchildren demanded as cure for feigned illnessEvil stepmother orders stepdaughter to be killedStepmother irritates two stepsons so that one kills the other
Filed beside it
Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relativesFather casts daughter forthJealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.)Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.)Repulsed lover kills woman's childJealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forthEvil stepmother works stepdaughter to death in absence of merchant husband
Carried in tale types

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