Ghouls. Persons eat corpses

Motif

Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IcelandicMacCulloch 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.

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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 3632 recorded variants

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