Devil as husband eats corpses — Mythoi

Motif

Devil as husband eats corpses.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Ghouls. · view the constellation · filed as G20.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Legends No. 369.

Within the index

Filed under Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

Filed beside it

Female eater of corpses People who eat their parents when they die, saying: they carried us in their bodies when we were born; now we shall do the same for them Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.) Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law

Carried in tale types

The Girl as Flower · ATU 407 2 recorded variants

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