Unnatural cruelty

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• Son killed at instigation of lover. S303
• Woman asks suitor to kill the child of his first wife. S303.1
• Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.) S310
• Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved. S311
• Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king. S311.1
• Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.) S312
• Child of incest exposed. (Cf. T410.) S312.1
• Violated woman's child exposed. S312.2
• Posthumous child to be exposed. S312.3
• Woman abandons baby boy (of which she was artificially impregnated) in forest. S312.4
• Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.) S313
• Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.) S314
• Destitute parents abandon children. S321
• Children abandoned in famine. S321.1
• Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative. S322
• Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives. S322.0.1
• Father casts daughter forth. S322.1
• Father who wanted son exposes (murders) daughter. S322.1.1
• Father casts daughter forth when she will not marry him. (Cf. T411.1.) S322.1.2
• Exposure in jungle for refusing to marry according to father's wishes. S322.1.2.1
• Father condemns daughter to death because he believes her unchaste. S322.1.3
• Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom. S322.1.4
• Boy turned out of doors by father. S322.1.5
• King, jealous of son, banishes him and his wife. S322.1.5.1
• Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.) S322.2
• Mother exposes child (for fear of jealous co-wife). S322.2.1
• Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.) S322.3
• Jealous co-wife demands murder of woman's children. S322.3.1
• Jealous concubine plots against real wife's daughter. S322.3.2
• Evil stepmother casts boy forth. S322.4
• Banishment (death) of stepchildren demanded as cure for feigned illness. S322.4.1
• Evil stepmother orders stepdaughter to be killed. S322.4.2
• Stepmother irritates two stepsons so that one kills the other. S322.4.3
• Repulsed lover kills woman's child. S322.5
• Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth. S322.6
• Evil stepmother works stepdaughter to death in absence of merchant husband. S322.7
• Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born. S324
• Diseased child exposed. S325
• Monstrous (deformed) child exposed. (Cf. S11.3.2, T550.) S325.0.1
• Child born with caul exposed. S325.0.1.1
• Disobedient children cast forth. S326
• Disobedient child burned. S326.1
• Child cast out because of his stupidity. S327
• Father wants to kill son because of foolish boasting. S327.1
• Baby ordered killed because it pulls beard of father (raja). S327.2
• Half-wit abandoned because of his tricks. S327.3
• Mother sells her child to heathen sailors. S328
• Reasons for abandonment of children – miscellaneous. S329
• Child exposed so as to avoid death decree. S329.1
• Circumstances of murder or exposure of children. S330
• Exposure of child in boat (floating chest). See references for S141, nearly all of which refer to this motif. S331
• Queen hides her child and accuses wolf of eating it. S332
• Child's ankles pierced before exposing him. S333
• Tokens of royalty (nobility) left with exposed child. (Cf. H80.) S334
• Child exposed with twelve years' supply of food and attendants. S334.1
• Child exposed at palace gate. S335
• Abandoned child wrapped in straw. S336
• Children enticed into grain pot and imprisoned. S337
• Father abandons his daughter in forest and leaves axes tied so that they move in wind. Daughter thinks he is cutting wood. S338
• Exposure prevented. S341
• Exposure given up on account of newborn son's protesting stanza. S341.1
• Mother induced by rival to kill her children. S342
• Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.) S345
• Fate of abandoned child. S350
• Infant condemned to death saved by a smile. S350.1
• Child driven out (exposed) brought up in secret. S350.2
• Abandoned child cared for by mother secretly. (Cf. R153.) S351
• Abandoned child made over to its own mother (sister) acting as wet nurse. S351.0.1
• Abandoned child cared for by grandmother (aunt, foster mother). S351.1
• Abandoned child reared by herdsman. (Cf. R131.3.) S351.2
• Abandoned princess, brought up by herdsmen, becomes wife of king. S351.2.1
• Animal aids abandoned child(ren). (Cf. B535.) S352
• Animal preserves fire for abandoned children in a clam shell. S352.1
• Abandoned child reared by supernatural beings. S353
• Deity nurtures and rears abandoned child. S353.1
• Exposed children miraculously fed by angels. S353.2
• Exposed infant reared at strange king's court (Joseph, Oedipus). S354
• Abandoned child adopted and found by queen. S354.1
• Travelers find exposed baby girl and take her to emperor's court. S354.2
• Prince (princess) adopts exposed child. S354.3
• Exposed child carried off by wild beast. (Cf. R13.) S355
• Children left at home seek exposed brothers and sisters. S356
• Abandoned sister rescued by brothers. When she is refused entrance to house, she makes complaint in a song and brothers bring her clothes. S357
• Bird carries food from deserted child to starving parents. S361
• Starving parents come to abandoned child for food. S362
• Maltreated children transformed. (Cf. D642.) S365
• Maltreated children transformed to doves. S365.1
• Abandoned children return and kill parents. S366
• Abandoned daughter's son becomes hero. S371
• Old woman's maledictions inform abandoned hero of his parentage and future. He has knocked her over (broken pots). S375
• Tree feeds abandoned children with its sap. S376
• Deserted children become Thunder. S378
• Cruel persecutions. S400
• Unsuccessful attempts to kill person in successive reincarnations (transformations). S401
• Persecuted wife. S410
• Wife banished. S411
• Misunderstood wife banished by husband. She has decorated the house for his homecoming, but he thinks that she is expecting a paramour. S411.1
• Wife banished for some small fault. S411.2
• Queen banished for saying that man's condition depends on what kind of wife he has. S411.2.1
• Barren wife sent away. S411.3
• Wife banished because she eats by stealth. S411.4
• Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.) S412
• Husband expels wife because her industry indicates her peasant origin. S412.1
• Unfaithful husband and his mistress persecute his wife. S413
• Ogress-wife orders raja to turn out his six wives. S413.1
• Second wife orders husband to persecute first. S413.2
• Woman abandoned when with child. S414
• Queen banished when she defeats king in argument. S416
• Disposal of cast-off wife. S430
• Cast-off wife exposed in boat. S431
• Cast-off wife and child exposed in boat. S431.1
• Cast-off wife thrown into water. (Cf. S142.) S432
• Cast-off wife abandoned on island. (Cf. S145.) S433
• Cast-off wife abandoned in pit. (Cf. T581.2.) S435
• Cast-off wife's head shaven. S436
• Cast-off wife sent to herd cows. S437
• Abandoned queen blinded. S438
• Cast-off wife and child abandoned in forest. (Cf. S143.) S441
• Outcast wife and her son live in poverty. S442
• Abandoned wife hidden under a tub. S445
• Rejected wife asks to take away only what she brought. S446
• Fate of outcast wife. S450
• Outcast wife at last united with husband and children. S451
• Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. S452
• Exposed woman helped by magician. S453
• Other cruel persecutions. S460
• Tale-bearer unjustly drowned for lack of proof of accusation. S461
• Jealous wife has merchant turn out queen and son, whom he had befriended and taken into his home. S463
• Deity appears before persecuted youngest brother and gives him a flock of sheep. S464
• Abandoned person in woods comforted by prophet and birds. (Cf. S143.) S465
• Practice of one's religion forbidden. S466
• Persecuted sons of co-wife. (Cf. K2222.) S471
• Cruelty to animals. S481