μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cannibal ogre.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G312

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 109, 291, 1113, II 950
  • Mono-Alu Wheeler 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 away Spirit-woman in rock devours men and cattle Flesh-eating spirits live in trees Man-eating ogre fries his victims in kettle of oil Bhrat, fierce flesh-eating creatures made by Creator in fit of anger Ogre eats only men's hearts Ogress devours horses
Filed beside it
Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically 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

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