Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)

Motif

Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children sold or promised. · view the constellation · filed as S215

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section IX
Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 2, Story 1
North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Bird Myths — Myth 3838. WHY THE TURKEY GOBBLES
North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 43XLII. THE ATTACK ON THE GIANT ELK ™

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
AfricaWerner African 223.

Within the index

Filed under Children sold or promised.

1 finer motif beneath it

Girl promises herself to animal suitor

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 mermaid. (Cf. B81.)Mothers exchange children

Travels with

Daughter promised to animal suitor Bankrupt father sells his daughters in marriage to animals. (Sometimes to pay gambling debt.) (Cf. S215.)Youth sells himself to an ogre in settlement of a gambling debt. (Cf. M211, S215.)

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