Giant ogre. Polyphemus. (For motifs concerning giants who are not malevolent but merely large, see F531.)

Motif

Giant ogre. Polyphemus. (For motifs concerning giants who are not malevolent but merely large, see F531.)

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Giant ogres. · Giant ogre. · view the constellation · filed as G100

Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "geant"
LappishQvigstad FFC LX 47 Nos. 69–73
IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 275ff.
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 12, 20
India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Angola)Chatelain 85 No. 5.
general *Types 304, 311, 312, 313, 314, 314*, 327, 327*, 328, 518, 531, 545A, 1137, 1148*, 1165*
general *Hackman Die Polyphemsage
general *BP III 375ff.
general *Clouston Tales I 133ff.: Arill Polyphemosmotivet i bohuslänsk folkdiktning (Bohuslänska Folkminnen [Uddevalla, 1922] 54)
general *Chauvin VII 17 No. 373C, VIII 205, IX 93
general Saintyves Perrault 281ff.
general Dickson 130–135 passim. – English: Wells 17 (Guy of Warwick), 22 (Sir Beues of Hamtoun), 32 (Layamon's Brut), 80 (Sir Tristem), 88 (Roland and Vernagu), 117 (Sir Torrent of Portyngale)

Within the index

3 finer motifs beneath it

Giant ogre (Fomorian)Giant gambler as ogre Valley of the one hundred giants

Travels with

Trolls. Sometimes underground spirits, sometimes also thought of as mountain-spirits. In many tales trolls are ogres. (Cf. G100, G400–G599.)Abduction by giant. (Cf. F531, G100.)Rescue of princess (maiden) from giant (monster). (Cf. G100.)Rescue by giant. (Cf. G100.)

Carried in tale types

The Blinded Ogre · ATU 11372 recorded variants

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