Strong hero sent from home because of enormous appetite — Mythoi

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

Filed across the traditions

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

Within the index

Filed under Strong hero sent from home.

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

Strong John · ATU 650A 7776 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “enormous” · wander