Bankrupt father sells his daughters in marriage to animals. (Sometimes to pay gambling debt.) (Cf. S215.)

Motif

Bankrupt father sells his daughters in marriage to animals. (Sometimes to pay gambling debt.) (Cf. S215.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Reasons for promise (sale) of child. · view the constellation · filed as S221.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

SpanishEspinosa Jr. No. 65
India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 149, II 1013.
general *Types 425C, 552A
general *BP II 234ff., III 424ff.

Within the index

Filed under Child sold (promised) for money.

Filed beside it

Youth sells himself to an ogre in settlement of a gambling debt. (Cf. M211, S215.)

Travels with

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

Carried in tale types

The Girls Who Married Animals · ATU 5528 recorded variants

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