Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply

Motif

Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.3

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Lamba)Doke MAFLS XX 14 No. 11, (Hausa): Basset Mélusine III 226f. No. 2, (Fulah): Frobenius Atlantis VI 182ff. No. 4.

Within the index

Filed under Sacrifice to appease spirits (gods). (Cf. K1603, T211.1.1.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity 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

Filed beside it

Highest ranking man in land to be sacrificed for good crops Child sacrificed to gain favor of gods Sacrifice to river-god who has stopped boat in mid-stream Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.)Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars

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