Child promised to wood-spirit. (Cf. F441.)

Motif

Child promised to wood-spirit. (Cf. F441.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children sold or promised. · view the constellation · filed as S213

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Type 667*.

Within the index

Filed under Children sold or promised.

Filed beside it

Child sold into slavery Child sold to be killed Child sold (promised) to devil (ogre). See also references to S220–S259, practically all of which apply here Child sold to magician Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.)Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)Mothers exchange children

Travels with

Wood-spirit

wander