Motif
Jealous stepmother
jealous_stepmother
A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic
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More Celtic Fairy Tales XLVI. THE TAIL 217 / NOTES AND REFERENCES 219 / THE STORY. / XXVII. THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR.; lines 6367-6457 confidence: high
The notes direct readers to incident lists under “Jealous Stepmother” and “Swan Maiden Transformation,” and mention modern literary uses by Griffin and Moore.
The parallels section names “Jealous Stepmother,” and Nutt identifies stepmother jealousy as causing the metamorphosis.
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