"Kill it if it is a girl."
Sex. · Care of children. · Illegitimate children. · view the constellation · filed as T645.2.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 4
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 5
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 4
- North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 78LXXVIII. THE SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON 729
- North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 12
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.
- IndonesiaDe Vries's list No. 203.
Within the index