Parricide
A noble knight has a single son and heir who does nothing but drink, carouse, and spend his money irresponsibly. At last, when he has spent all his allowance, he began to consider how he might kill his father and inherit all his wealth. He feigns illness, and tells his father that he sickens for want of the meat of a wild boar. Worried, his father decides to go hunt a boar in order to cure his son, and enters the nearby woods. There he is ambushed by his son and twelve of his son's companions, who kill him and chop his body into tiny pieces. The son then returns home to his sickbed, where is lies - seemingly ill and griefstricken - when news of his father's death is brought to him.
(Note: the end of of the story is incomplete in-text, and followed by c. 114 missing lines)
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Nishimura notes that the motif index code for 'Parricide' is TMI S22.
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