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Motif

Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.)

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Ghouls. · view the constellation · filed as G25

Filed across the traditions
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 385.
Within the index

Filed under Ghouls. Persons eat corpses.

Filed beside 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 Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fate of abandoned child

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