Motif
Abandoned infant grows to adulthood alone
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A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 1551-1654 confidence: high
The mother forgets the goolay with the child, wanders to a far country, and the child crawls out, grows stronger, walks, runs, and becomes a man without seeing her.
The child is forgotten in a goolay and grows by stages from baby to man without his mother.
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