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Motif

Children sold or promised.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children sold or promised. · view the constellation · filed as S210

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“She at once made heiself a salad of it, and ate it with much relish. She, hewever, liked it so much — so very much, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he Avas to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he let himself down again ; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 12 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 930
  • general Aarne FFC XXIII 54
  • general BP I 98
  • general Grimm Nos. 12, 31, 55, 92, 181
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Child sold into slaveryChild sold to be killedChild sold (promised) to devil (ogre). See also references to S220–S259, practically all of which apply hereChild sold to magicianChild promised to wood-spirit. (Cf. F441.)Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.)Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)Mothers exchange children
Travels with
Girl sold for new church bell. (Cf. S210.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Tabu: finding name of ghostTransformation: watersprite to floodTransformation: straw to goldTransformation and disenchantment at willDisenchantment by throwing golden objects into waterOtherworld at bottom of pondDwarfs' house of reedsDwarfs help in performing taskWorld at bottom of pondPerson lives without food or drink for a year (or more)Recognition by unique manner of playing fluteTask assigned before wife may rescue husband from supernatural power

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