μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "geant"
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 47 Nos. 69–73
  • Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 275ff.
  • French Canadian Barbeau 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
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

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