Repulsed lover kills woman's child — Mythoi

Motif

Repulsed lover kills woman's child.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.5

Cited in the index

general Dickson 73 n. 26.

Within the index

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

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.) Evil stepmother casts boy forth 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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