Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them — Mythoi

Motif

Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G327

Cited in the index

general Montaignais: Speck JAFL XXXVIII 15.

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 magically 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 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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