Saving the promised child

Motif

Saving the promised child.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Saving the promised child. · view the constellation · filed as S250

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 3
GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS
Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VI
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 7, Section CL

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière.

Within the index

3 finer motifs beneath it

Virgin Mary rescues child promised to the devil Vain attempt to save promised child Deity saves person about to be sacrificed. (Cf. S263.2.1.)

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