μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Children unwittingly promised (sold). · view the constellation · filed as S245

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Fjort) Dennett 58 No. 11.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre Child 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-Nothing 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

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