μῦθοι Mythoi
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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 Fate of abandoned child.

Filed beside it
Child driven out (exposed) brought up in secretAbandoned child cared for by mother secretly. (Cf. R153.)Animal aids abandoned child(ren). (Cf. B535.)Abandoned child reared by supernatural beingsExposed infant reared at strange king's court (Joseph, Oedipus)Exposed child carried off by wild beast. (Cf. R13.)Children left at home seek exposed brothers and sistersAbandoned sister rescued by brothers. When she is refused entrance to house, she makes complaint in a song and brothers bring her clothesBird carries food from deserted child to starving parentsStarving parents come to abandoned child for foodMaltreated children transformed. (Cf. D642.)Abandoned children return and kill parentsAbandoned daughter's son becomes heroOld woman's maledictions inform abandoned hero of his parentage and future. He has knocked her over (broken pots)Tree feeds abandoned children with its sapDeserted children become Thunder

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