Ogre draws victims under water — Mythoi

Motif

Ogre draws victims under water.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G336

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Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

1 finer motif beneath it

Demon drags beneath the water any person whose shadow falls on surface of water

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 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

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