Child unwittingly promised: "what you have at home." The man thinks it is a cat (dog)

Motif

Child unwittingly promised: "what you have at home." The man thinks it is a cat (dog).

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children unwittingly promised (sold). · view the constellation · filed as S242

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 54 No. 455
SpanishEspinosa II Nos. 99–103.
general *Types 316, 710
general *BP I 21
general Köhler-Bolte I 312
general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50, 62, 228 n.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Child unwittingly promised: "What you wife has under her belt."

Filed beside it

Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre Child unwittingly promised: "first thing you meet." (Jephthah's vow.)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

Carried in tale types

Our Lady's Child · ATU 7109 recorded variants

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