μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism.

1 finer motif beneath it
People fear that boy who eats raw birds will eat them when he grows older
Filed beside it
Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh

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