Devil is to have last one who leaves "black school"

Motif

Devil is to have last one who leaves "black school".

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children unwittingly promised (sold). · view the constellation · filed as S241.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Fb. "fanden" I 267b
general Scotland, England: Baughman.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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)Princess promised unwittingly to madman: "what you ask for."

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