μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Deity nurtures and rears abandoned child.

Unnatural cruelty. · Abandoned or murdered children. · Fate of abandoned child. · view the constellation · filed as S353.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 1366.
Within the index

Filed under Abandoned child reared by supernatural beings.

Filed beside it
Exposed children miraculously fed by angels

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