Sharp-elbowed women. Kill with their elbows — Mythoi

Motif

Sharp-elbowed women. Kill with their elbows.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G341

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 47 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 327 n. 181.

Within the index

Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ogre with sharpened leg

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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her Old person as helper Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.) Cruel father

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