Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero — Mythoi

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Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Heroes. · Brothers as heroes. · view the constellation · filed as Z215

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Brothers as heroes.

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Warriors identically equipped (brothers) Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother Dreadnaughts. Brothers deliberately seek dangers they have been warned against. Triumph Supernatural origin of hero: magic conception. (Cf. T510.) Eldest brother as hero

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