μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cast-off wife and child exposed in boat.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel persecutions. · Disposal of cast-off wife. · view the constellation · filed as S431.1

Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 115 (Sir Eglamour of Artois), 117 (Sir Torrent of Portyngale), 129 (Emare), Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 3
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 155 n. 3 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general Hibbard 26ff.
Within the index

Filed under Cast-off wife exposed in boat.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrifice Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time Transformation: man to stone Petrification by glance Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman Magic sandals Magic cap Magic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.) Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.) Night magically lengthened Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.)

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