Foundation sacrifice. A human being buried alive at base of the foundation of a building or bridge — Mythoi

Motif

Foundation sacrifice. A human being buried alive at base of the foundation of a building or bridge.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S261

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 39 (Arthour and Merlin), 42 (Nennius' Historia Britonum)
Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 200
Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 81
Finnish-Swedish Wessman 73 No. 620
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3519
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 133 No. 81
Spanish Espinosa III Nos. 139, 151, 157
India *Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Krappe Balor 165 n. 1
general *Gaidoz Mélusine IV (1888) No. 2
general Krappe Revue Celtique XLIII (1926) 124ff. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Sacrifices. (Cf. S255.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Human blood mixed with rice to make leaky tanks hold water Child as foundation sacrifice smiles and wins freedom. The king asks him why he smiles. "One first expects mercy from the parents; if they have none, then from the king. Now only God will have mercy."

Filed beside it

Human sacrifice Periodic sacrifices to a monster Sacrifice to appease spirits (gods). (Cf. K1603, T211.1.1.) Sacrifice to rivers and seas Sacrifice of strangers Burial of live girl to banish plague Flood stopped by sacrifice of boy and girl Child sacrificed to provide blood for cure of friend. (Cf. S260.1.4.) Sacrifice of child to remove barrenness Sacrifice of brothers promised if girl is born Child bought to serve as sacrifice to demon Sacrifice as an agricultural rite Sacrifice as protection against disease [First Edition: S290. Cruel sacrifices – miscellaneous motifs.]

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