Cruel son-in-law

Motif

Cruel son-in-law.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel relatives-in-law. · view the constellation · filed as S56

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 41
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 17

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
MarquesasHandy 126
S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel relatives-in-law.

1 finer motif beneath it

Lover asks girl to kill her father

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 daughter-in-law Cruel sister-in-law

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