Queen hides her child and accuses wolf of eating it

Motif

Queen hides her child and accuses wolf of eating it.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Circumstances of murder or exposure of children. · view the constellation · filed as S332

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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.

general Malone PMLA XLIII 437.

Within the index

Filed under Circumstances of murder or exposure of children.

Filed beside it

Exposure of child in boat (floating chest). See references for S141, nearly all of which refer to this motif Child's ankles pierced before exposing him Tokens of royalty (nobility) left with exposed child. (Cf. H80.)Child exposed at palace gate Abandoned child wrapped in straw Children enticed into grain pot and imprisoned Father abandons his daughter in forest and leaves axes tied so that they move in wind. Daughter thinks he is cutting wood Exposure prevented Mother induced by rival to kill her children Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.)

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