μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • IrishBaughman
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 8.
  • general *Types 314, 400, 710, 756B
  • general *BP II 329
  • general *Fb "frugtsommelig" I 376, "ufødt" III 926a
  • general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50ff., 56ff., 223
  • general *MacCulloch Childhood 418
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogreChild 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-NothingChild 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 otherDaughter 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
Travels with
Child sold (promised) to devil (ogre). See also references to S220–S259, practically all of which apply here
Carried in tale types

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