Illegitimate children — Mythoi

Motif

Illegitimate children.

Sex. · Care of children. · Illegitimate children. · view the constellation · filed as T640

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. XII
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 4
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Hell 24
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 3: The Sophic Hydrolith, or Water Stone of the Wise
Depth Commentary The Interpretation of Dreams , Chapter V

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

7 finer motifs beneath it

Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.) Mother of illegitimate child given as pledge for his crime Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.) Child betrays his own illegitimacy Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son Illegitimate child taunted by playmates Illegal to care for illegitimate child

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.)

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