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.

  • LithuanianBalys Legends No. 369.
Within the index

Filed under Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

Filed beside it
Female eater of corpsesPeople 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 themAbandoned 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

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