Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers

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Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.5.3

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.)

Filed beside it

Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague)Monks sacrifice themselves (to save king and princes from pestilence)

Travels with

Man thrown overboard to placate storm. (Cf. S263.5.3.)

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