μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Evil stepmother casts boy forth.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.4

Filed across the traditions
  • 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 illness Evil stepmother orders stepdaughter to be killed Stepmother irritates two stepsons so that one kills the other
Filed beside it
Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives Father casts daughter forth Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.) Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.) 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

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