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Motifs
- Moon's phases caused by feeding or starving. A755.5
- Suicide from fear of starving. F1041.1.11.1
- Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. G72.2
- Starving colt fierce from hunger, but fool refuses to feed it lest it become fiercer. J2214.10
- Witch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture child. K764
- Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food. M225
- Child hides food from starving parents. S20.2
- Bird carries food from deserted child to starving parents. S361
- Starving parents come to abandoned child for food. S362
- Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts. T215.2
- Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood. T215.3
- Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband. T215.8
- 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. Z215
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