Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.)

Motif

Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children sold or promised. · view the constellation · filed as S214

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

SlavicRussian Folk-Tales, Chapter II
IrishOld Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic, Tale 3OVERFLOWING OF LOUGH NEAGH,
FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune IV

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross.
general Köhler-Bolte I 178

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 wood-spirit. (Cf. F441.)Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)Mothers exchange children

Travels with

Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea

wander