μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 249 No. 27.
Within the index

Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

Filed beside it
Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magicallyCannibal ogreProcrustes. 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 menSwinging 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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