Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.) — Mythoi

Motif

Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.5

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it

Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague) Monks sacrifice themselves (to save king and princes from pestilence) Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers

Filed beside it

Highest ranking man in land to be sacrificed for good crops Child sacrificed to gain favor of gods Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply Sacrifice to river-god who has stopped boat in mid-stream Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. (Cf. S263.5.)

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