Parental Abandonment/Oral Tradition
Examples of Parental Abandonment in Oral Tradition include:
- This trope is very common in legends and stories dating back thousands of years.
- Older Than Feudalism: Moses and Oedipus are two characters abandoned by their parents. Also see Moses in the Bulrushes.
- King Arthur is a more recent example.
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