μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Japanese Ikeda.
Within the index

Filed under Sacrifices. (Cf. S255.)

6 finer motifs beneath 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 Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.) Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars
Filed beside it
Human sacrifice Foundation sacrifice. A human being buried alive at base of the foundation of a building or bridge Periodic sacrifices to a monster Sacrifice to rivers and seas Sacrifice of strangers Burial of live girl to banish plague Flood stopped by sacrifice of boy and girl Child sacrificed to provide blood for cure of friend. (Cf. S260.1.4.) Sacrifice of child to remove barrenness Sacrifice of brothers promised if girl is born Child bought to serve as sacrifice to demon Sacrifice as an agricultural rite Sacrifice as protection against disease [First Edition: S290. Cruel sacrifices – miscellaneous motifs.]
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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 dies Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing

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