Dragon devours children.
Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B11.10.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), APPENDIX, ch. 34
- MāoriPolynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, Chapter 2
- HawaiianLegends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, VIIVII.
- MāoriPolynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, Chapter 14
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 Eng., U.S.: Baughman.
Carried in tale types
- The Fight on the Bridge · ATU 300A2 recorded variants