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

Motif

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

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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