μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Illegitimate child taunted by playmates.

Sex. · Care of children. · Illegitimate children. · view the constellation · filed as T646

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish MacCulloch Celtic 52, *Cross
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 200
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Chinese Graham
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 78 No. 44
  • Oceanic Dixon 67f., 82, 113
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis IV 273
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 277 No. 89
  • West Indies Flowers 579.
  • general *Type 873
  • general DeVries Edda (1923) 155ff., DeVries Studiën over Faerösche balladen 44ff.
  • general Chauvin V 72
  • general India and China: Cowell Jātaka VI 21, Chavannes 500 Contes III 331
Within the index

Filed under Illegitimate children.

1 finer motif beneath it
Child cries because his father is unknown
Filed beside 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 Illegal to care for illegitimate child

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