Dying monster's request and promise. Hero is to drink his blood, suck his eyes and brains, and give his heart to his loved one to eat. He will become marvelously strong and his wife will have three sons and four daughters with great powers

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Dying monster's request and promise. Hero is to drink his blood, suck his eyes and brains, and give his heart to his loved one to eat. He will become marvelously strong and his wife will have three sons and four daughters with great powers.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Promises connected with death. · view the constellation · filed as M257

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

GasconBladé I 3, 181
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Köhler-Bolte I 117

Within the index

Filed under Promises connected with death.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dying hero's request and promise to disciples Murdered person's request and promise

Filed beside it

Dying man's promise will be kept Promise of dying man to bring news of other world. (Or two friends agree that the first to die shall bring news)Friends in life and death. In pursuance of the pledge, the living follows the other to the world of the dead Promise to be buried with wife if she dies first Deathbed promise concerning the second wife. Promises his dying wife that he will not marry unless the bride meets the specifications the dying wife imposes Promise to dying man broken Promise to dying man sacred

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