Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically — Mythoi

Motif

Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G311

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 49 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 58
Greek Grote I 7
Eskimo (Central) Boas RBAE VI 626
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191e
Africa (Luba) DeClerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 226.
general *Chauvin VII 23 No. 373E
general Fb "ryg" III 103ab
general *Basset 1001 Contes I 190

Within the index

Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

Filed beside it

Cannibal ogre Procrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretched Pine bender. Kills victims by springing tree Cycnus. Cuts off heads of strangers in order to build temple of heads Giant robber with club Wrestling ogre Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff Piercer-of-souls: fishes men Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims Path between monsters. Scylla and Charybdis Ogre keeps human prisoners Ogre decapitates captive princess before he leaves palace; resuscitates her on return

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Magic spittle Magic excrements Magic tears Magic ornament provides treasure Magic building provides treasure Quest assigned because of feigned dream Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fire Tree-pulling contest Deceptive eating contest Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out) Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for him The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom

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