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*''Anime/{{Raideen}}: [[spoiler: Princess Lemuria is a gender-flipped {{Expy}} of Moses. When she was young, the Demon Empire destroyed her planet, the ancient continent of Mu, so the rest of her people chose her as the SoleSurvivor and her father placed her in a boat so she could get to safety. She managed to escape their wrath, while working on defeating Emperor Barao. Also, she can [[MindOverMatter split the sea]].]]

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* The titular hero of Indian fantasy epix, ''Film/{{Ajooba}}'', a prince who was cast into the seas by the evil vizier who killed his parents. He survives thanks to a [[HeroicDolphin dolphin]] retrieving his crib and sending him to a nearby fishing village, grows up, and returns to reclaim his throne.

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* The titular hero of Indian fantasy epix, epic, ''Film/{{Ajooba}}'', a prince who was cast into the seas by the evil vizier who killed his parents. He survives thanks to a [[HeroicDolphin dolphin]] retrieving his crib and sending him to a nearby fishing village, grows up, and returns to reclaim his throne.


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* ''Film/PortraitOfANymph'': The film's protagonist, Shi-Erh (played by a young Creator/YuenBiao) is an exorcist-in-training adopted by his mentor after his biological father puts him in a basket with a lilypad-blanket, ans sets him downriver. Curiously, audiences never know why the hero is abandoned by his family, who appears pre-credits and is never brought up for the rest of the film.
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** Leman Russ was found and raised by a she wolf before being retrieved by the people of Fenris.
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* Mortarion, Primarch of the Death guard from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.

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* Mortarion, Primarch of the Death guard from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. He was discovered by the inhabitants of Barbarus, a planet with a toxic atmosphere poisonous to normal humans. But he was found having survived the poisonous air as an infant.
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* An evil example in Sara Douglass's ''Battleaxe'' and its sequels: A child of the Icarii (mountain-dwelling winged humans with access to magic) and Avar (reclusive forest dwellers) conceived on the night of the Beltide orgy between the two races MUST be aborted (by means of a herbal draught) as soon as the pregnancy is discovered, or terrible things will result. The BigBad Gorgrael's Avar mother can't bring herself to do this, so she takes herself off into the mountains. There she dies in childbirth, leaving the infant to be found and raised by the malignant nonhuman Skraelings. The Skraelings, for their part, would normally have feasted on the child except for the fact that [[spoiler: he is an inhuman monster who killed his mother by eating his way out, so he fits right in with them]]. It takes three doorstopper novels with innumerable deaths and much suffering on the part of the living before he's finally brought to heel, and getting it done completely trashes the natural order of the world they live in and plants seeds of treachery that come back to bite the heroes over three further volumes.

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* An evil example in Sara Douglass's ''Battleaxe'' and its sequels: A child of the Icarii (mountain-dwelling winged humans with access to magic) and Avar (reclusive forest dwellers) conceived on the night of the Beltide orgy between the two races MUST be aborted (by means of a herbal draught) as soon as the pregnancy is discovered, or terrible things will result. The BigBad Gorgrael's Avar mother can't bring herself to do this, so she takes herself off into the mountains. There she dies in childbirth, leaving the infant to be found and raised by the malignant nonhuman Skraelings. The Skraelings, for their part, would normally have feasted on the child except for the fact that [[spoiler: he is an inhuman ''literal'' monster who killed his mother by eating his way out, out,]] so he fits right in with them]]. them. It takes three doorstopper novels with innumerable deaths and much suffering on the part of the living before he's finally brought to heel, and getting it done completely trashes the natural order of the world they live in and plants seeds of treachery that come back to bite the heroes over three further volumes.volumes ''after'' he's gone.
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* An evil example in Sara Douglass's ''Battleaxe'' and its sequels: A child of the Icarii (mountain-dwelling winged humans with access to magic) and Avar (reclusive forest dwellers) conceived on the night of the Beltide orgy between the two races MUST be aborted (by means of a herbal draught) as soon as the pregnancy is discovered, or terrible things will result. The BigBad Gorgrael's Avar mother can't bring herself to do this, so she takes herself off into the mountains. There she dies in childbirth, leaving the infant to be found and raised by the malignant nonhuman Skraelings. The Skraelings, for their part, would normally have feasted on the child except for the fact that [[spoiler: he is an inhuman monster who killed his mother by eating his way out, so he fits right in with them]]. It takes three doorstopper novels with innumerable deaths and much suffering on the part of the living before he's finally brought to heel, and getting it done completely trashes the natural order of the world they live in and plants seeds of treachery that come back to bite the heroes over three further volumes.
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* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'': Parodied . The baby Chosen One, having narrowly escaped the thugs that killed his parents, ends up rolling down a steep hill. He is found by a peasant woman, who picks him up, hugs him... and sends him rolling down the hill again. Chosen One also has an identifying mark of destiny -- his tongue is a living creature.

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* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'': Parodied .Parodied. The baby Chosen One, having narrowly escaped the thugs that killed his parents, ends up rolling down a steep hill. He is found by a peasant woman, who picks him up, hugs him... and sends him rolling down the hill again. Chosen One also has an identifying mark of destiny -- his tongue is a living creature.
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* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', Frogfucius/the Frog Sage adopted Mallow when he found a basket with the baby cloud being going down the river.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is your average sixteen year old. Until she stumbles upon an altercation between a fairy and a troll and accidentally unlocks magic powers that she was unaware of, leading to the reveal that she herself is also a fairy. She later learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found the infant Bloom abandoned inside a burning building, and mysteriously unharmed. Eventually, Bloom learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, a planet that was destroyed by the [[VillainLegacy Ancestral Witches]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is your average sixteen year old. Until she stumbles upon an altercation between a fairy and a troll and accidentally unlocks magic powers that she was unaware of, leading to the reveal that she herself is also a fairy. She later learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found the infant Bloom abandoned inside a burning building, and mysteriously unharmed. Eventually, Bloom learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, a planet that was destroyed by the [[VillainLegacy [[VillainousLegacy Ancestral Witches]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is your average sixteen year old. Until she stumbles upon an altercation between a fairy and a troll and accidentally unlocks magic powers that she was unaware of, leading to the reveal that she herself is also a fairy. She later learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found the infant Bloom abandoned inside a burning building, and mysteriously unharmed. Eventually, Bloom learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, a planet that was destroyed by the [[OverarchingVillain Ancestral Witches]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is your average sixteen year old. Until she stumbles upon an altercation between a fairy and a troll and accidentally unlocks magic powers that she was unaware of, leading to the reveal that she herself is also a fairy. She later learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found the infant Bloom abandoned inside a burning building, and mysteriously unharmed. Eventually, Bloom learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, a planet that was destroyed by the [[OverarchingVillain [[VillainLegacy Ancestral Witches]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is an ordinary Earth girl. Or at least that's how she seems until she discovers that she is a fairy and has magic powers. Later she learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found Bloom inside a burning building. Eventually, she learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, the planet that was destroyed by the Ancestral Witches.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is an ordinary Earth girl. Or at least that's how your average sixteen year old. Until she seems until she discovers that she is stumbles upon an altercation between a fairy and has a troll and accidentally unlocks magic powers. Later powers that she was unaware of, leading to the reveal that she herself is also a fairy. She later learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found the infant Bloom abandoned inside a burning building. building, and mysteriously unharmed. Eventually, she Bloom learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, the a planet that was destroyed by the [[OverarchingVillain Ancestral Witches.Witches]].
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* The titular hero of Indian fantasy epix, ''Film/{{Ajooba}}'', a prince who was cast into the seas by the evil vizier who killed his parents. He survives thanks to a [[HeroicDolphin dolphin]] retrieving his crib and sending him to a nearby fishing village, grows up, and returns to reclaim his throne.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is an ordinary Earth girl. Or at least that's how she seems until she discovers that she is a fairy and has magic powers. Later she learns from her parents that her father saved Bloom from a fire and adopted her. Eventually, she learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, the planet that was destroyed by the Ancestral Witches.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Bloom is an ordinary Earth girl. Or at least that's how she seems until she discovers that she is a fairy and has magic powers. Later she learns from her parents that her father saved Bloom from father, a fire and adopted her.fighter, found Bloom inside a burning building. Eventually, she learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, the planet that was destroyed by the Ancestral Witches.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': An expediction from the founders of Equestria discovered two alicorn foals in front of the Tree of Harmony. At that point, alicorns were a purely fictional concept to embody unity between the recently united races so the sisters, Celestia and Luna, were taken in as a good omen. The creation goddess, Harmony, specifically made them to be mortals' protectors by invoking this trope.

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* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': An expediction expedition from the founders of Equestria discovered two alicorn foals in front of the Tree of Harmony. At that point, alicorns were a purely fictional concept to embody unity between the recently united races so the sisters, Celestia and Luna, were taken in as a good omen. The creation goddess, Harmony, specifically made them to be mortals' protectors by invoking this trope.



* ''Animation/TreasureOfSwampCastle'': Princess Szaffi is lost in a flood and adopted by a romani woman.

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* ''Animation/TreasureOfSwampCastle'': Princess Szaffi is lost in a flood and adopted by a romani Romani woman.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'''s origin story. When he was a baby, his parents sent him to Earth in a space cradle.
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* In the fifth ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, George and Harold write an origin story about Captain Underpants. When his home planet is sprayed with starch, Baby Underpants' parents use his waistband as a slingshot and send him flying to earth.
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* Myth/MesopotamianMythology:
** According to one account Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire, was the illegitimate son of a priestess who cast him into the river in a basket of rushes. But the goddess Ishtar protected him and he was adopted by a royal cupbearer, and from there he managed to seize the throne. Given Sargon lived in the 24th century B.C. and the account dated to the 7th century B.C. most anthropologists consider the story a myth, but the similarities to Moses have been noted.
** Herodotus recorded a myth of Cyrus the Great's birth in which Cyrus's maternal grandfather, the King of Media, tried to have him killed at birth due to a prophecy that he would supplant his grandfather. Only for the shepherd to whom the task was delegated to bring him up as his own, until the deception was discovered when Cyrus turned 10 and he was sent back to Persia to live with his birth parents. But Herodotus is not exactly a reliable chronicler.
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* ''Literature/TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles'': The main characters are set adrift on a raft for eight days before meeting the titular Muggles. They survive despite being infants and having no access for food or water for ''eight days.''

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** The nameless Namekian who would later [[LiteralSplitPersonality split himself into Kami and King Piccolo]] was sent to Earth from Namek to escape a disaster that killed nearly every other Namekian.[[note]]Except Grand Elder Guru and the anime-only, then exiled Lord Slug. Luckily, Namekians reproduce asexually, so unlike the Saiyans, they recovered from the near extinction of their race.[[/note]] Unlike most examples of this trope, the nameless Namekian had no parental figures to raise him, so he [[TearJerker spent his entire childhood alone, in a frozen wasteland, waiting for someone to come looking for him]]. Eventually, after years of waiting, he leaves to explore Earth.
** A parodic twist of the concept: In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', it was revealed that Goku was a Saiyan, sent to Earth as a newborn to conquer it for Frieza's planet trade organization.[[note]]The combination of Earth's inhabitants being incredibly weak compared to other races and the planet having full moons far more frequently than other planets (Saiyans can use the full moon to turn into Oozaru, incredibly powerful giant weremonkeys) would mean even a single Saiyan infant could conquer the planet.[[/note]] In a twist, this saved him from the near-genocide of his race caused by Frieza himself, and he was raised into a good person by a succession of quirky father-figures (it also helped that he received a blow to the head as a child that gave him EasyAmnesia).
** ''Dragon Ball Minus'' (and ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', which adapts some elements of ''Minus'') retcons / revisions Goku's origin into a more traditional example. Goku's parents were suspicious of Frieza's decision to recall all the Saiyans to their home planet at once and sent Goku to Earth for his own protection. They neglected to explain this to Raditz, who assumed his brother had been sent on a standard mission.

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** The nameless Namekian Namekian, who would later [[LiteralSplitPersonality split himself into Kami God and the Great Demon King Piccolo]] Piccolo]], was sent to Earth from Namek to escape a disaster that killed nearly every other Namekian.[[note]]Except the Grand Elder Guru and the anime-only, then exiled Lord Slug. Luckily, Namekians reproduce asexually, so unlike the Saiyans, they recovered from the near extinction of their race.[[/note]] Unlike most examples of this trope, the nameless Namekian had no parental figures to raise him, so he [[TearJerker spent his entire childhood alone, in a frozen wasteland, waiting for someone to come looking for him]]. Eventually, after years of waiting, he leaves to explore Earth.
** A parodic twist of the concept: In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', it was revealed that Goku was a Saiyan, sent to Earth as a newborn to conquer it for Frieza's Freeza's planet trade organization.[[note]]The combination of Earth's inhabitants being incredibly weak compared to other races and the planet having full moons far more frequently than other planets (Saiyans can use the full moon to turn into Oozaru, incredibly powerful giant weremonkeys) would mean even a single Saiyan infant could conquer the planet.[[/note]] In a twist, this saved him from the near-genocide of his race caused by Frieza Freeza himself, and he was raised into a good person by a succession of quirky father-figures (it also helped that he received a blow to the head as a child that gave him EasyAmnesia).
** ''Dragon Ball Minus'' (and ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', which adapts some elements of ''Minus'') retcons / revisions Goku's origin into a more traditional example. Goku's parents were suspicious of Frieza's Freeza's decision to recall all the Saiyans to their home planet at once and sent Goku to Earth for his own protection. They neglected to explain this to Raditz, who assumed his brother had been sent on a standard mission.mission (they mentioned to tell Raditz, but somehow they didn't).
** Also in the aforementioned ''DBS Broly'' movie, Broly was banished to the planet Vampa because of his great power he had as an infant. Unusual for this trope. Broly's father Paragus followed right after him in order to retrieve him, since it happened against his will. Unfortunately, both, father and son end up stuck on Planet Vampa for several decades, without knowing that their home planet got blown up by Freeza. Broly was raised by his strict father who also had to restrain him because of Broly's tendency to go berserk. Ironically, it's two of Freeza's henchmen who find the two of them and get them out of the planet, bring them to Freeza who subsequently recruits the two Saiyans without telling the truth that he destroyed Planet Vegeta.
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-->-- "River Lullaby" from "Deliver Us", ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''

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-->-- "River Lullaby" from "Deliver Us", Lullaby", ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' reveals Po to be this, finally explaining how a panda can have a goose as a father. The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Po's father is still alive along with a number of other pandas who managed to escape Lord Shen's slaughter]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' opens with Pharaoh Seti ordering the mass infanticide of all newborn Hebrew boys. Yocheved and her other two children, Miriam and Aaron, rushes to the Nile River, where she places her infant son in a basket on the water. Miriam follows the basket as it sails to the Pharaoh's palace and witnesses her baby brother safely adopted by Seti's wife, Queen Tuya.
* ''Animation/TreasureOfSwampCastle'': Princess Szaffi is lost in a flood and adopted by a gypsy woman.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': reveals Po to be this, finally explaining how a panda can have a goose as a father. The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Po's father is still alive along with a number of other pandas who managed to escape Lord Shen's slaughter]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': opens with Pharaoh Seti ordering the mass infanticide of all newborn Hebrew boys. Yocheved and her other two children, Miriam and Aaron, rushes to the Nile River, where she places her infant son in a basket on the water. Miriam follows the basket as it sails to the Pharaoh's palace and witnesses her baby brother safely adopted by Seti's wife, Queen Tuya.
* ''Animation/TreasureOfSwampCastle'': Princess Szaffi is lost in a flood and adopted by a gypsy romani woman.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': An expediction from the founders of Equestria discovered two alicorn foals in front of the Tree of Harmony. At that point, alicorns were a purely fictional concept to embody unity between the recently united races so the sisters, Celestia and Luna, were taken in as a good omen. The creation goddess, Harmony, specifically made them to be mortals' protectors by invoking this trope.
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': In the first movie, the human mother just manages to deposit her young son with the protagonist animals before dying. Counts, because how could she know that they would take care of him?

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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'': In the first movie, the human mother just manages to deposit her young son with the protagonist animals before dying. Counts, because how could she know that they would take care of him?
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* ''Literature/TheMermaidChronicles'': The human girl Maya's parents were killed at sea by the hound of the ocean. Maya, who was just a few days old, was on the boat with them. She couldn't survive in the ocean, so a mermaid carried her to shore and left her on the beach to be found by humans.
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* The premise of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26832964/chapters/65464708 wasting beats of this heart of mine]]'' is [[VideoGame/{{Hades}} Zagreus]] escaping the Underworld via reincarnation. With Nyx's help, he's reborn as a mortal infant and sent to the farmer Philomenus adrift a magical river. Few of his neighbors believe that story, and instead assume that he's a bastard.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Parents killed? Yep. Whisked away? Yep. DoorstopBaby? Yep. Raised somewhere safe? Yep (Dumbledore has enspelled Harry as long as he lives with the Dursleys). TheChosenOne? Yep. Comes from a background much different from the way he is raised? Yep. Distinguishing special mark? Yep. Identified by tons of people who knew his parents? Yep. Has to step up and face the BigBad? Yep. What more can you ask for? [[spoiler: Has to sacrifice his life freely in order to save everyone? Yep!]]

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* In ''Literature/HayyIbnYaqzan'', one possible explanation for how Hayy came to be a WildChild on a DesertedIsland is that he was a ChildOfForbiddenLove whose mother put him in an ark and set him adrift until he washed up on the island.



* ''Literature/LostVoices'': The first mermaids were the Unnamed Twins, who were born to a shepherd's wife 3,000 years ago. They were sickly, and as girls not worth saving, so their father left them on a cliff beside the sea to die. Instead, they were rescued and raised by Proteus, and transformed into mermaids as adolescents. Now they and their kind get revenge on the humans who mistreated and abandoned them by [[SirensAreMermaids using their enchanted voices to sink ships]].



* ''Literature/LostVoices'': The first mermaids were the Unnamed Twins, who were born to a shepherd's wife 3,000 years ago. They were sickly, and as girls not worth saving, so their father left them on a cliff beside the sea to die. Instead, they were rescued and raised by Proteus, and transformed into mermaids as adolescents. Now they and their kind get revenge on the humans who mistreated and abandoned them by [[SirensAreMermaids using their enchanted voices to sink ships]].
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* In the ChivalricRomance ''The Swan Children'', the [[ShapeshiftingLover swan maiden]] who marries a king gives birth to children, and her wicked mother-in-law has them exposed, replacing them with animals that she claims her daughter-in-law has given birth to.

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* In the ChivalricRomance ''The Swan Children'', ''Literature/TheSwanChildren'', the [[ShapeshiftingLover swan maiden]] who marries a king gives birth to children, and her wicked mother-in-law has them exposed, replacing them with animals that she claims her daughter-in-law has given birth to.
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* Rémi from ''Literature/SansFamille'' by Hector Malot (and its numerous adaptations).

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* ''Myth/KingArhutr'': In some versions, King Arthur tries to avert the prediction that his son Mordred will kill him by having him put out to sea on a raft. In some cases, it's said that he actually put all the children who shared that birthday onto a raft, to avoid the shame of killing his own son. Either way, a fisherman ends up finding and raising Mordred.

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* ''Myth/KingArhutr'': ''Myth/KingArthur'': In some versions, King Arthur tries to avert the prediction that his son Mordred will kill him by having him put out to sea on a raft. In some cases, it's said that he actually put all the children who shared that birthday onto a raft, to avoid the shame of killing his own son. Either way, a fisherman ends up finding and raising Mordred.

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