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

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

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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.

IndiaThompson-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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