Person becomes cannibal.
Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Person becomes cannibal. · view the constellation · filed as G30
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 14, Section LVI
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 14, Section XCII
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter II
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section XII
- North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Historical Traditions — Myth 105105. THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN TRIBES
Scholars’ trail — 5references
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.
- MaoriClark 152
- KoryakJochelson JE VI 295, 302
- Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 128, 258, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 260
- N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 357 n. 287c.
- general MacCulloch Childhood 297. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 197
Within the index
5 finer motifs beneath it
Carried in tale types
- The Cannibal Sister · ATU 315A1 recorded variant