μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 26references

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.

  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 57 No. 135
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "anthropophages," "diable"
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 189, 588, II 32, 407, 676, 824
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 21
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 76ff. 83f.
  • MaoriClark 100, 159
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 272
  • SiberianHolmberg Siberian 388
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68, (Southern Ute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 74 No. 46
  • AfricaWerner African 242, (Basuto): Jacottet 8, 122, 204, 208, 258, (Angola): Chatelain 97, 103, (Fang): Einstein 65, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 199, (Zulu): Callaway 47, 74, 142, 154, *158, 181, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413, (Kaffir): Theal 126, 139f., Kidd 225, (Benga): Nassau 227 No. 34, (Congo): Weeks 203, (Mpongwe): Nassau 72 No. 15.
  • general *Types 327, 406*
  • general BP I 115
  • general *Cox Cinderella 499
  • general *Saintyves Perrault 299ff.
  • general *Penzer X 181 s. v. "Human flesh"
  • general *Fb "menneskekjød"
  • general *Freytag Am Ur-Quell N. F. I 179
  • general *MacCulloch Childhood 279
  • general Krause Der Ur-Quell I 1
  • general *Cosquin Contes indiens 208
  • general **DeCock Volkssage 64
  • general *Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx II 87

Showing a bounded trail of 26 from 26 references.

Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Kinds of cannibalsTransformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats menSpiritual exaltation from eating human fleshHuman being devoured dailyOgre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour herHaunts of cannibals
Travels with
Man-eating tree. (Cf. G10.)Husband rescues wife from cannibal. (Cf. G10.)Father eats own children. (Cf. G10.)Brother kills and eats brother. (Cf. G10.)

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