μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • 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 sicknessSon sold for transfusion of blood to sick king
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 appease spirits (gods). (Cf. K1603, T211.1.1.)Sacrifice to rivers and seasSacrifice of strangersBurial of live girl to banish plagueFlood stopped by sacrifice of boy and girlSacrifice 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
Sacrifice of child to save life of another. (Cf. S268.)
Carried in tale types

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