Abandoned child cared for by grandmother (aunt, foster mother)

Motif

Abandoned child cared for by grandmother (aunt, foster mother).

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Fate of abandoned child. · view the constellation · filed as S351.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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*Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 167
N. Am. Indian (California)Gayton and Newman 91.

Within the index

Filed under Abandoned child cared for by mother secretly. (Cf. R153.)

Filed beside it

Abandoned child made over to its own mother (sister) acting as wet nurse Abandoned child reared by herdsman. (Cf. R131.3.)

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