Diseased child exposed — Mythoi

Motif

Diseased child exposed.

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

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Kaffir) Kidd 224 No. 1.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

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

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 Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born 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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