μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • PersianCarnoy 325
  • JewishNeuman.
Within the index

Filed under Other ogres.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Fight with sea (lake) monsterWater-monsterHerds of sea monsters on surface of seaLake made dangerous by haunting serpent (dragon, péist)Shark-man ogre, eater of children swimmingLake monster has power to attract victimsClam shell invites man down into sea so he can be eatenMonsters of the sea: two whales of human parentageDemon-octopus
Filed beside it
Monsters. Usually not clearly defined. See this entire chapter on ogresDemons. Malevolent creatures (not usually further defined)Devil. (The Devil, Satan, The Bad Man, Old Nick, etc.) Not clearly differentiated, especially in German tradition, from the stupid ogre. (See also F531 (Giant), G100–199 and G500–699.)Troll as ogre. (For troll as underground spirit or mountain spirit see F455. For troll-woman see G200–G299, Witches.)Earl king. Child-stealing ogre. (Cf. F321.5.)Rainbow as ogreJinn

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