Giant ogress with breasts thrown over her shoulder

Motif

Giant ogress with breasts thrown over her shoulder.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Giant ogres. · Physical characteristics of giant ogres. · view the constellation · filed as G123

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 183.
general Van Gennep Formation des Légendes 47

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Filed under Physical characteristics of giant ogres.

Filed beside it

Blind giant ogre Giant's hair grows into rock. He is thus kept from falling from cliff Skeleton giant Fire-spewing giantess Giant ogre in shape of animal

Travels with

Wood-nymph with breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F460.1.2, G123.)Mountain-wife has breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F441.2.1.2, F531.1.5.1, G123.)

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