Child bought to serve as sacrifice to demon

Motif

Child bought to serve as sacrifice to demon.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S273

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Penzer VII 87 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Sacrifices. (Cf. S255.)

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 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 Sacrifice as an agricultural rite Sacrifice as protection against disease [First Edition: S290. Cruel sacrifices – miscellaneous motifs.]

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