μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Monstrous (deformed) child exposed. (Cf. S11.3.2, T550.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Reasons for abandonment of children. · view the constellation · filed as S325.0.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Greek Grote I 55
  • Chinese Graham
  • Marquesas Handy 114
  • Tonga Gifford 31, 60.
Within the index

Filed under Diseased child exposed.

1 finer motif beneath it
Child born with caul exposed
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Father kills deformed children. (Cf. S325.0.1.) Monstrous births

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