Sacrificial victim chosen by lot. (Cf. N126.)
Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S262.3
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic *Boberg
- Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 793
- West Africa Tauxier La Noir du Yatenga (Paris, 1917) 496f. No. 1, (Hausa): Basset Mélusine III 226f. No. 2, (Senegambia): Bérenger-Feraud II 185ff. No. 2.
Within the index
Filed under Periodic sacrifices to a monster.
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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