Ghouls. Persons eat corpses — Mythoi

Motif

Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 276, 281
India *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 202
Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 104, III 104
general Type 363
general Chauvin VI 198 No. 371
general Africa (BaRonga): Einstein 262.

Within the index

5 finer motifs beneath it

Devil as husband eats corpses 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 Corpse-Eater (previously The Vampire) · ATU 363 2 recorded variants

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