Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born

Motif

Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S324

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 mythCross.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.)Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.)Destitute parents abandon children Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative Diseased child exposed Disobedient children cast forth Child cast out because of his stupidity Mother sells her child to heathen sailors Reasons for abandonment of children – miscellaneous

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