Motif
hostile older female persecutes a daughter-in-law
hostile_older_female_persecutes_a_daughter_in_law
A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family, within the sub-family Female Kin, Co-wives, and Rival Threats. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Jamaica Anansi Stories SONG AND DANCE. / PREFACE. / ANIMAL STORIES. / OLD STORIES, CHIEFLY OF SORCERY.; lines 4975-5050 confidence: high
A remarried man's new wife, called an Old Witch, dislikes the daughter-in-law; the daughter-in-law takes one grain of peas from the pot after the other daughter suggests it, and the witch detects the missing grain by pairing the peas.
Both narrative units involve a daughter-in-law endangered or mistreated by an older female household figure.
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