"Ah me!": ogre's name uttered. He appears

Motif

"Ah me!": ogre's name uttered. He appears.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: calling on ogre or destructive animal. · view the constellation · filed as C21

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general Köhler-Bolte I 557
general Köhler Zs. f. Vksk. VI 68
general *Cosquin Études Folkloriques 532ff.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: calling on ogre or destructive animal.

Filed beside it

"Bear's food." To urge on his horses a man threatens them with the bear, calling them "bear's food." The bear hears and comes for them Wish for animal husband realized. Girl says she will marry a certain animal. Latter appears and carries her off. (Cf. C15.)

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