After the birth of the stepdaughter's first child, the stepmother may attempt to murder the new mother and replace her with her own daughter — thus making her the stepmother to the next generation.

The stepmother may be identified with other evils the characters meet.

An analogous male figure may also appear as a wicked uncle ; like the stepmother, the father's brother may covet the child's inheritance for his own children, and so maltreat his nephews or nieces.

Folklorists often interpret the French folk tale Cinderella as the competition between the stepmother and the stepdaughter for resources, which may include the need to provide a dowry.

Henry sought refuge with his stepmother Joan in Ponthieu ; she may have suggested he visit his sister Eleanor, who was married to Edward, the son and heir of King Henry III of England.

The porphyrogenita Maria may have considered herself the rightful heir, as the elder child of Manuel ; she was almost as old as her stepmother Maria.

Nominal composition may be observed in peueriz " father ": hilz-peueriz " stepfather ", maiz " mother ": hilz-maiz " stepmother ", and scirizin " son ": hilz-scifriz " stepson ", as well as phazur: kulz-phazur.

Once again provisions become scarce and the stepmother angrily orders her husband to take the children further into the woods and leave them there to die.

Chrysippus, however, did not die at once, and was able to tell Pelops that the real murderer was his stepmother.

Bolesław I was no different, and shortly after the death of Mieszko I ( 25 May 992 ), he banished his stepmother Oda and his two half-brothers, as they had to be considered competitors to the throne, especially in light of the Dagome Iudex.

When Güyük moved westwards, Tolui's widow and a sister of Batu's stepmother Sorghaghtani warned Batu that the Jochids might be his target.

In a grimmer variation, the tale Babes in the Wood features a wicked uncle in the role of the wicked stepmother, who gives an order for the children to be killed.

'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: " She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends.

He was born out of wedlock and frequently taken to be brought up by each of his parents, eventually settling with his Russian Jewish father and his stepmother.

* Tristran Thorn: The book's main character ( renamed " Tristan " in the movie adaptation ), a half-Faerie creature raised by his father Dunstan Thorn and stepmother Daisy, who he believes to be his mother.

The hostility of the king's mother to his new bride is repeated in the fairy tale The Six Swans, and also features The Twelve Wild Ducks, where she is modified to be the king's stepmother, but these tales omit the cannibalism.

Sometimes this appears to be a deliberate switch: The Brothers Grimm, having put in their first editions versions of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel where the villain was the mother, altered it to a stepmother in later editions, perhaps to mitigate the story's violence.

It should be noted, however, that on 1 March 1177, his son Roger Bigod appealed to the king on a dispute with his stepmother.

A Russian folk tale exists in which the evil stepmother ( also the wife of a poor woodcutter ) asks her hated stepdaughter to go into the forest to borrow a light from her sister, who turns out to be Baba Yaga, who is also a cannibalistic witch.

" He asked James H. O ' Connor, the husband of Mollie's stepmother, to " take care of my family and be a protector to my wife and dear little ones.

) His father and stepmother died days apart when he was 14, causing him and several siblings to be scattered among relatives.

( In his early planning, Renwick had thought that Maddie should be Creek's stepmother and that they would investigate crime in memory of his murdered father.

If she were the mother of Nefertiti she would be expected to have the royal title Mother of the Pharaoh's Great Wife instead, so if Ay was the father of Nefertiti, then Tey would have been her stepmother.

Robert Carradine said that he was raised primarily by his stepmother, his father's third wife, Doris ( Rich ) Grimshaw, and believed her to be his mother until he was introduced to Sonia Sorel at a Christmas party when he was 14 years old.

The remains of his stepmother could not be analysed because she had been cremated.

Carradine was raised primarily by his stepmother, his father's third wife, Doris Grimshaw, and believed her to be his mother until he was introduced to Sonia Sorel at a Christmas party when he was 14 years old.

Indeed, he was estranged for several months from his eldest son Bryan until the latter's stepmother Violet persuaded Bryan to be " the bigger man " his father would never be and reconcile despite Edgar being the one most at fault.

But when Fabian and Guy learn about her natural mother's plans, the biological bond proves to be stronger than any care that could be given them by their stepmother, and they want to meet her.

Despite these strains, it would be Edith, the demanding stepmother, who would save Longworth from a life possibly in a wheelchair or on crutches when Longworth came down with a mild form of polio in one leg, causing its muscles to grow shorter than in the other leg.

Early in the game, the player learns of the scheme by Fudd's wife and Lorealle's stepmother, Morgana, who intends her daughter (' by a previous marriage '), Grizelda the Hefty to be on the dying King's side and therefore become the sole heir.

After he has driven out the Saxons, Vortimer is poisoned by his stepmother Rowena ( a Saxon ) and Vortigern regains the crown.

On his death, Pepin came out of retirement to take on the mayoralty in Austrasia for the heir Sigebert III and to oversee the distribution of the treasury between Sigebert and his brother, Clovis II, and his stepmother Nanthild, who was ruling on Clovis ' behalf in Neustria and Burgundy.

This name rose out of stories about a selfish stepmother ; the tale was told to children in various versions while the teller plucked off corresponding parts of the blossom to fit the plot.

On Lothair's return to his father's court, his stepmother Judith won his consent to her plan for securing a kingdom for her son Charles, a scheme which was carried out in 829, when the young prince was given Alemannia as king.

Djula ’ s stepmother comes out and grumbles about their laziness.

When he was barely an adult, his stepmother threw him out of the house.

She is found to be sneaking out of the house at night and using drugs, which clouds her relationship with her stepmother, Elizabeth.

The newspaper reported that Winkleman " looked drawn and stressed on the doorstep as she greeted ( her father and stepmother ), who took her son out for the morning.

Millie then discovers Jimmy and Miss Dorothy are millionaire siblings and Muzzy is their stepmother, who sent them out into the world to find partners who would love them for who they were and not for their money.

Brudnoy did not come out to his father and stepmother until his illness in 1994 ; his father Harry was 88 years old when Brudnoy finally phoned him to give him the news and also discuss the health crisis he was undergoing.

His stepmother informed him that when he graduated high school he would be thrown out of the house.

The film was about a 9-year-old boy whose stepmother was not willing to accept him into the family because he was born out of an extramarital relationship.

After getting all of the sprites, freeing three of her family members ( who also tell her more about her past, such as her really being an orphan that Solon, the Elf king found and brought back to his kingdom as well as Solon being murdered by Thorn ) and making her way to Thorn's Airship to save her stepmother, Kameo confronts the two villains and wins after knocking Kalus out with Chilla's ice spikes.

When World War I broke out, his father and stepmother moved to London, England.

His stepmother refused to divulge her recipe, so Slater resorted to subterfuge in order to turn out his own version.