Strong hero sent from home because of enormous appetite

Motif

Strong hero sent from home because of enormous appetite.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkably strong man. · view the constellation · filed as F612.1

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "appétit"
IndonesianDe Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde XXX (1926) 97ff.
PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 24.
general *Type 650
general BP II 293
general Christiansen Norske Eventyr 92
general *Fb "spise" III 495b, "æde" III 1140a

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Strong hero kills (overcomes) playmates: sent from home Hero leaves home with giant equipment

Carried in tale types

Strong John · ATU 650A7776 recorded variants

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