μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 54 No. 455
  • Spanish Espinosa 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

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