Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.)

Motif

Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.)

Sex. · Care of children. · Nurture and growth of children. · view the constellation · filed as T621

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

N. Am. Indian (California)Gayton and Newman 69.

Within the index

Filed under Nurture and growth of children.

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.)Boy reared in ignorance of the world

Travels with

Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin

wander