Female eater of corpses — Mythoi

Motif

Female eater of corpses.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Ghouls. · view the constellation · filed as G21

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

Filed beside it

Devil as husband eats 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

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “corpses” · wander