μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • HinduTawney II 616
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/249, 1110, z-G. 3/1276)
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 194
  • TahitiBeckwith Myth 197
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 370
  • MaoriClark 39.
Within the index

Filed under Kinds of cannibals.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats womenWoman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularlyOld woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human fleshWoman devours her husband
Filed beside it
Cannibalistic godCannibal dwarfsCannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.)Cannibal witchNegro cannibalWater cannibalCannibalistic 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

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