μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cruel mother-in-law. See references to K2110.1. and K2215, many of which have the present motif.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel relatives-in-law. · view the constellation · filed as S51

Filed across the traditions
  • Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1480*
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 5, *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Hindu Penzer III 44f.
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 342, 736
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 125, 189
  • New Guinea Dixon 136
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 180 n. 1.
  • general *Type 706
  • general *BP I 295ff.
  • general *Dickson 25 n. 26, 29 n. 3, 30 n. 4, 31 n. 9, 41 n. 40
  • general Saintyves Perrault 67
  • general **Däumling Studie über den Typus des Märchens ohne Hände (München, 1912)
  • general *Andree (1878) 159
  • general Hibbard 26
  • general Schlauch Constance and Accused Queens 40. English: Wells 96 (Chevalere Assigne), 118 (Octovian), 130 (Emare)
Within the index

Filed under Cruel relatives-in-law.

1 finer motif beneath it
Cruel mother-in-law plans death of daughter-in-law
Filed beside it
Cruel father-in-law Cruel daughter-in-law Cruel sister-in-law Cruel son-in-law

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