μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Devastating monster. Lays waste to the land.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with characteristic methods. · view the constellation · filed as G346

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 126, 148f.
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 102
  • Finnish Kalevala rune 46 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XLVI
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12
  • Greek Fox 56
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 301, 550
Within the index

Filed under Ogres with characteristic methods.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Devastating monster which comes out of a hole in evening Devastating monster mews like cat Devastating demon. Kills and eats people Amphibious monster Evil spirit drinks water supply dry
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
Carried in tale types

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