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Motif

Unwitting bargain with devil evaded by driving dog over bridge first. The child has been unwittingly promised (the first thing that goes over the bridge).

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children unwittingly promised (sold). · view the constellation · filed as S241.1

Cited in the index
  • general Kittredge Witchcraft 206, *518 n. 19
  • general Hazlitt Shakespeare Jest Books I 86f. No. 67
  • general Mensa Philosophica No. 11.
Within the index

Filed under Child unwittingly promised: "first thing you meet." (Jephthah's vow.)

Filed beside it
Devil is to have last one who leaves "black school" Princess promised unwittingly to madman: "what you ask for."
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Dog sent ahead so as to avoid seeing husband transformed. (Cf. S241.1.)
Carried in tale types

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