μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cruel daughter-in-law.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel relatives-in-law. · view the constellation · filed as S54

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Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 256f.
  • Marquesas Handy 111.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel relatives-in-law.

1 finer motif beneath it
Burned and underbaked bread. Wishing to rid herself of her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law starts to feed him burned bread; but the old man begins to thrive on it. When she tries underbaked bread, he dies very soon
Filed beside it
Cruel mother-in-law. See references to K2110.1. and K2215, many of which have the present motif Cruel father-in-law Cruel sister-in-law Cruel son-in-law

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