Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents — Mythoi

Motif

Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S262.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Periodic sacrifices to a monster.

Filed beside it

One man disappears each night Woman given to devastating monster as wife to appease it Tribute of youths regularly sent to foreign king Sacrificial victim chosen by lot. (Cf. N126.)

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