Boy reared in ignorance of the world

Motif

Boy reared in ignorance of the world.

Sex. · Care of children. · Nurture and growth of children. · view the constellation · filed as T617

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

EnglishWells 72 (Sir Percyvelle of Galles)
Irish myth*Cross
Missouri FrenchCarrière
Spanish ExemplaKeller
JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Nurture and growth of children.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons Hero learns his name at time of first adventure

Filed beside it

Suckling of children Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy Diabolical child kills his wet-nurses. (Gowther, Robert the Devil.)Supernatural growth. (Cf. T585.)Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.)

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