Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity

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Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.3.1

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.

general Africa Tauxier La Noir du Yatenga (Paris, 1917) 496f. No. 1, (Senegambia): Béranger-Feraud II 185ff. No. 2.

Within the index

Filed under Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply.

Filed beside it

Serpent in stream demands pair of human eyes for drink of water. (Cf. M225.)Raja sacrifices his entire family so as to purify lake water

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