Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law

Motif

Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Ghouls. · view the constellation · filed as G27

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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.

S. Am. Indian (Viracocha)Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 550.

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

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