μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • JapaneseIkeda.
Within the index

Filed under Sacrifices. (Cf. S255.)

6 finer motifs beneath it
Highest ranking man in land to be sacrificed for good cropsChild sacrificed to gain favor of godsPerson sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supplySacrifice to river-god who has stopped boat in mid-streamSacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.)Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars
Filed beside it
Human sacrificeFoundation sacrifice. A human being buried alive at base of the foundation of a building or bridgePeriodic sacrifices to a monsterSacrifice to rivers and seasSacrifice of strangersBurial of live girl to banish plagueFlood stopped by sacrifice of boy and girlChild sacrificed to provide blood for cure of friend. (Cf. S260.1.4.)Sacrifice of child to remove barrennessSacrifice of brothers promised if girl is bornChild bought to serve as sacrifice to demonSacrifice as an agricultural riteSacrifice as protection against disease[First Edition: S290. Cruel sacrifices – miscellaneous motifs.]
Travels with
Man falls into sacrificial grave prepared for others. Rich man orders poor people to dig a grave in order to bury all in it as sacrifice to avert famine. But a Christian frees them and promises those who become Christian a living. The rich man himself falls in the grave and diesWoman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing

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