Child exposed at palace gate — Mythoi

Motif

Child exposed at palace gate.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Circumstances of murder or exposure of children. · view the constellation · filed as S335

Cited in the index

general Penzer VII 81 n. 1, 82 n., 250.

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 Queen hides her child and accuses wolf of eating it Child's ankles pierced before exposing him Tokens of royalty (nobility) left with exposed child. (Cf. H80.) 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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