μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cannibalism.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Cannibalism. · view the constellation · filed as G10

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 57 No. 135
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "anthropophages," "diable"
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 189, 588, II 32, 407, 676, 824
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 21
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 76ff. 83f.
  • Maori Clark 100, 159
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 272
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 388
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68, (Southern Ute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 74 No. 46
  • Africa Werner 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

…and 2 more.

Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Kinds of cannibals Transformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats men Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh Human being devoured daily Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her Haunts of cannibals
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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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