Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh — Mythoi

Motif

Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Cannibalism. · view the constellation · filed as G13

Cited in the index

general Penzer II 198 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Cannibalism.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ritual cannibalism: corpse of hero (demigod) eaten to acquire his strength Ogre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty

Filed beside it

Kinds of cannibals Transformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats men Human being devoured daily Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her Haunts of cannibals

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