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

Motif

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

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Reasons for promise (sale) of child. · view the constellation · filed as S221.2

Cited in the index

general *Type 313
general BP I 442.

Within the index

Filed under Child sold (promised) for money.

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Man sells soul to devil. (Faust, Theophilus.) Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)

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