μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • 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 strengthOgre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty
Filed beside it
Kinds of cannibalsTransformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats menHuman being devoured dailyOgre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour herHaunts of cannibals

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