Evil stepmother works stepdaughter to death in absence of merchant husband — Mythoi

Motif

Evil stepmother works stepdaughter to death in absence of merchant husband.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S322.7

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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 Repulsed lover kills woman's child Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth

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