Motif
stepfather exposes boy at a dangerous height
stepfather_exposes_boy_at_a_dangerous_height
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
native american plains
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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians HERO TALES. / TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS. / MISCELLANEOUS TALES. / HISTORICAL TRADITIONS.; lines 14541-14632 confidence: high
The boy tells his mother that during deer hunting his father forced him down ropes to an eagle nest, threw down the rope after the boy signaled, and that an eagle later brought him home; the mother has the account heralded, the people blame the stepfather, and the names Big-iron and Good-clouds are given.
One segment reports a father or stepfather leaving the boy at an eagle nest by dropping the rope; the second segment has a stepfather throw a boy into Bighorn Canon.
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