μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G332

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“One day the boy said, “Father, make me two bows and the arrows for them.”’ His father asked him why he wanted two bows. The boy said, “I want them to change about.” His father made them for him, but surmised the boy had other reasons, and concluded he would watch the boy, and on one day, earlier than usual, he left his tipi and hid upon a hill overlooking his tipi, and while there, he saw two boys of about the same age shooting arrows.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 44 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 321 n. 158, (California): Gayton and Newman 72, cf. 95.
  • general Siberia: Holmberg Siberian 387
Within the index

Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

1 finer motif beneath it
Ogre sucks victim's finger and drinks all his blood
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 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 itPath between monsters. Scylla and CharybdisOgre keeps human prisonersOgre decapitates captive princess before he leaves palace; resuscitates her on return
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by musicResuscitation by breathing on corpseDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Door (gate) entrance to lower worldSwallowed person becomes baldCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itMan with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundingsKilling trees threaten heroPlace and conditions of childbirth

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