Animal aids abandoned child(ren). (Cf. B535.)

Motif

Animal aids abandoned child(ren). (Cf. B535.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Fate of abandoned child. · view the constellation · filed as S352

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“There she saw four boys dancing and singing, and a little girl watching the place where the mother was supposed to be digging clams. The mother waited a moment and watched, and then coming in she caught them in human form, and scolded them, saying that they ought to have had that form in the first place, for on their account she had been brought to shame before the people. At this the children sat down and were ashamed.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 65 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 65 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
India*Thompson-Balys
West IndiesFlowers 576.
general S. Am. Indian (Sherenti): Lowe BBAE CXLIII (1) 515

Within the index

Filed under Fate of abandoned child.

1 finer motif beneath it

Animal preserves fire for abandoned children in a clam shell

Filed beside it

Infant condemned to death saved by a smile Child driven out (exposed) brought up in secret Abandoned child cared for by mother secretly. (Cf. R153.)Abandoned child reared by supernatural beings Exposed 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 sisters Abandoned sister rescued by brothers. When she is refused entrance to house, she makes complaint in a song and brothers bring her clothes Bird carries food from deserted child to starving parents Starving parents come to abandoned child for food Maltreated children transformed. (Cf. D642.)Abandoned children return and kill parents Abandoned daughter's son becomes hero Old woman's maledictions inform abandoned hero of his parentage and future. He has knocked her over (broken pots)Tree feeds abandoned children with its sap Deserted children become Thunder

Travels with

Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned child

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Daily transformation Disenchantment by violence Disenchantment by removing skin (or covering)Recognition of disenchanted person by ornaments under his skin King (prince) lost on hunt has adventures Abandoned or murdered children Bird carries food from deserted child to starving parents

Carried in tale types

The Sister of Nine Brothers (previously The Stork's Daughter) · ATU 709A1 recorded variant

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