μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Boy reared in ignorance of the world.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 72 (Sir Percyvelle of Galles)
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Jewish Neuman.
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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