μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. *2027B
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV No. 6
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • HinduTawney I 162, II 450
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 85, II 25, III 50f., 168f., Rink 48, 440, Holm 80, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 198, 598, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 599
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 233.
  • general Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 485 nn. 28, 29. England: Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Kinds of cannibals.

Filed beside it
Cannibalistic godCannibal dwarfsCannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.)Negro cannibalWater cannibalMan-eating womanCannibalistic kingCannibal meteorOgre schoolmaster. Girl sees schoolmaster eat human flesh. Refuses to tell him what she saw. He persecutes herCannibalistic spiritsCannibal with extraordinary features. (Cf. G88.)Cannibal with winnowing tray and pestleGambling cannibalJungle-man as cannibalCannibal demonArmy of cannibal monsters
Carried in tale types

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