Serpent in stream demands pair of human eyes for drink of water. (Cf. M225.)

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Serpent in stream demands pair of human eyes for drink of water. (Cf. M225.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.3.2

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

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Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity Raja sacrifices his entire family so as to purify lake water

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Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food

wander