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nephew. On the other hand, the relations between parents and 

 children, particularly between father and child, are described as 

 most intimate. It is said over and over again that parents love their 

 children very much (for instance, 297); and even more often, that a 

 father loves his son very much (137, 192, 244). On 247 it is said 

 that a boy loves the father very much. It is an expression of the 

 love between father and son that a boy sleeps in his father's bed, 

 cries when he thinks that his father has been killed, and lies in the 

 bed of his lost father, weeping (249). Father and son cry when they 

 have to part (244, 248). A father thinks always of his lost daughter 

 (163, 170). He searches for her when she is lost (N 230). When the 

 mother scolds her son, the father stops her (193); but at another 

 place we hear that when a child dies, the mother dies of sorrow (172). 

 When a woman gives birth to an otter, she finally takes pity on him 

 and begins to love him (168). When a visiting woman allows the 

 hostess to take charge of her infant child, she constantly looks at it, 

 full of fear that something might happen to it (142). When her child 

 is killed by the hostess, fear prevents her from crying (142). When a 

 slave-woman in a starving household has secured some meat, she 

 feeds her children secretly (229). 



The children grow up in their father's house (234) . Even a married 

 man lives in the same house with his mother (1.195). When the 

 father returns from hunting, the children run to meet him (94). The 

 children give property that they have procured to their father; 

 therefore the father of hunters is wealthy (161). A woman who has 

 obtained food from a supernatural being gives it to her parents (240). 

 A young woman who finds food shares it with her mother (1.73). 

 On the other hand, a woman who is not treated well by her husband 

 asks food from her father's people (238). 



Returning travelers are met by crowds, who assemble in front of 

 the house of the father of one of the travelers. They then go to this 

 man's house (262). A lost woman returns to her father's house* 

 (342). A lost hunter returns to the house in which he finds his 

 sister, while his wife and children have to be called in (104). A lost 

 prince returns to the house of his father, who has died during his 

 absence, and whose nephew has succeeded to his place and has 

 inherited his house (321). The body of a person who has died is 

 carried to his father's house (203). 



When a person had been away for a long time, he would naturally 

 return to his parents' house, and therefore several times we find 

 mention of a hunter who had been absent for a long period, and who 

 finds his parents dead ( 1.115) . The same happens to a girl ( 1.167) . 

 The lost girl who returns to her father's house goes straight to her 

 bedroom without speaking to any one (170). In 1.195 we find the 

 married sons living in their parents' house, for the youngest one of 



