μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Ghouls. · view the constellation · filed as G23

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

Filed beside it
Devil as husband eats corpses Female eater of corpses Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.) Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law

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