μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 109, 291, 1113, II 950
  • Mono-AluWheeler 14, 21.
Within the index

Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Piśāca. Drinks blood and eats human flesh. Eats corpses and makes living waste awaySpirit-woman in rock devours men and cattleFlesh-eating spirits live in treesMan-eating ogre fries his victims in kettle of oilBhrat, fierce flesh-eating creatures made by Creator in fit of angerOgre eats only men's heartsOgress devours horses
Filed beside it
Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magicallyProcrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretchedPine bender. Kills victims by springing treeCycnus. Cuts off heads of strangers in order to build temple of headsGiant robber with clubWrestling ogreCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffPiercer-of-souls: fishes menBrother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues tricksterSwinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour themRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itSucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victimsPath between monsters. Scylla and CharybdisOgre keeps human prisonersOgre decapitates captive princess before he leaves palace; resuscitates her on return

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