Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre

Motif

Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children unwittingly promised (sold). · view the constellation · filed as S240.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Children unwittingly promised (sold). (Cf. S211.)

Filed beside it

Child unwittingly promised: "first thing you meet." (Jephthah's vow.)Child unwittingly promised: "what you have at home." The man thinks it is a cat (dog)Child unwittingly promised: Nix-Naught-Nothing. The child born while the father is away is named Nix-Naught-Nothing Child unwittingly promised: what is born on your farm. Two women agree that what is born on the farm of each belongs exclusively to the owner. The child of one is born on the farm of the other Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer

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