Prince's life can only be prolonged if servant sacrifices his only son to goddess

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Prince's life can only be prolonged if servant sacrifices his only son to goddess.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S268.1.1

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Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Tempest Act 2
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCXXXIV

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India*Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Sacrifice of child demanded as cure for feigned sickness.

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