Childless couple adopt animal as substitute for child

Motif

Childless couple adopt animal as substitute for child.

Sex. · Care of children. · Adoption of children. · view the constellation · filed as T676

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.

Within the index

Filed under Adoption of children.

1 finer motif beneath it

Childless woman adopts a serpent (transformed man). (Cf. D191.)

Filed beside it

Adoption by suckling. Ogress who suckles hero claims him as her son Adopted child reproaches his foster mother and is returned to his real mother Rich but stingy couple adopt young man as their son: everybody is happy Adopted child deserted when own child is born to couple Real mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied Substitute for a child. Aged, childless couple carve themselves a child from wood, or make one from snow, clay, and the like Adopted child identical with real child reared with him

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