μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • SpanishEspinosa II No. 114, Espinosa Jr. No. 140.
  • general *Roberts 128
Within the index

Filed under Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.)

8 finer motifs beneath 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.)Evil stepmother casts boy forthRepulsed 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
Filed beside it
Undesirable children exposed, desirable preservedIllegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.)Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.)Destitute parents abandon childrenPregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be bornDiseased child exposedDisobedient children cast forthChild cast out because of his stupidityMother sells her child to heathen sailorsReasons for abandonment of children – miscellaneous

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