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

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

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa Jr. No. 65
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

Carried in tale types

The Girls Who Married Animals · ATU 552 8 recorded variants

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