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Motif

Child sacrificed to provide blood for cure of friend. (Cf. S260.1.4.)

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

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 516
  • general **Rösch FFC LXXVII 138ff., 161ff.
  • general BP I 56
  • general *Chauvin VIII 195 No. 235: *Wells 787 (Amis and Amiloun)
  • general Hibbard 70ff.
  • general Scala Celi 10a No. 64
  • general Alphabet No. 55. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9, Rotunda
Within the index

Filed under Sacrifices. (Cf. S255.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Sacrifice of child demanded as cure for feigned sickness Son sold for transfusion of blood to sick king
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 appease spirits (gods). (Cf. K1603, T211.1.1.) Sacrifice to rivers and seas Sacrifice of strangers Burial of live girl to banish plague Flood stopped by sacrifice of boy and girl 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.)
Sacrifice of child to save life of another. (Cf. S268.)
Carried in tale types

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